Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 26, 2022
Three Jewish teens are back home in St. Louis with much-deserved medals after representing Team USA at the 2022 World Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Joie Sandler, 14, who will be a freshman at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in the fall, is coming...
(JTA) — On the wall of Adam Henry’s childhood bedroom in Fort Myers, Florida, hangs a gold medal from the 2017 Maccabiah Games, the international sports tournament often nicknamed the Jewish Olympics.
Adam, now a 20-year-old goalie playing Division...
(JTA) — NBA star Joel Embiid is an enormous man — around 7 feet tall and 280 pounds, to give an idea. But that didn’t stop him from joining in a hora dance and getting lifted in a chair at a Jewish friend’s recent wedding.
Embiid went...
(JTA) — The San Francisco Giants All-Star outfielder Joc Pederson will officially rejoin Team Israel for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Team Israel’s new manager, former major league All-Star Ian Kinsler, confirmed the news over the weekend.
It's...
(JTA) — Eric Reyzelman is in a New York state of mind.
The New York Yankees selected the Jewish Louisiana State University pitcher 160th overall in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball draft on Monday.
Reyzelman told the Jewish Telegraphic...
(Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) — The day after his 100th birthday on July 10, Dr. Howard Tucker headed downtown to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Cleveland Guardians baseball game.
“I just hope I can get the ball to the plate,” Tucker...
(JTA) — Jewish Super Bowl champion offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz has officially retired from the National Football League, almost two years after his career was derailed by injury.
Schwartz announced his decision Thursday on Twitter.
Career...
(JTA) — For the pro baseball prospect Eric Reyzelman, resilience runs in the family.
The 21-year-old pitcher is the son of two Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union — his mother Victoria came to the U.S. from Ukraine in 1989, and his father...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to attend the Maccabiah Games, known also as the Jewish Olympics, on Thursday.
The audience at the opening ceremony of the 21st Maccabiah games showered Biden with affection as thousands...
(JTA) — In May, the Bundesliga, Germany’s top soccer league, concluded its season on what has become a familiar note: the Bayern Munich club won its 10th straight league title, an unprecedented feat in any of the top European soccer leagues.
Although...
Frederic J. Frommer, The Forward
• Published July 12, 2022
When a Black outfielder fought for his economic freedom against baseball owners a half-century ago, Hank Greenberg, the Jewish Hall of Famer, was one of a handful of former players who sided with him — even though he had been a baseball executive after...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Two Jewish players made the Major League Baseball All-Star game rosters this week: pitcher Max Fried of the Atlanta Braves and outfielder Joc Pederson of the San Francisco Giants.
Both will play for the National League side. Pederson...
