LONDON (JTA) — In 1992, a group of Jewish businessmen helped revolutionize British soccer.  By the mid-1980s, English stadiums were crumbling, the quality of play was declining and violence between fans was endemic.  But businessmen like David Dein,...

It has been a big week for St. Louis native Anna Speller, a sophomore member of the Southeast Missouri (SEMO) Women's Gymnastics Team. Speller, won the individual beam event title and helped her squad to a fourth-place overall finish at the 2022 GymQuarters...

(JTA) — The way Adam Fox describes it, he was brought up like any other not-very-religious Jewish kid on Long Island. “I’m from a pretty normal family,” he explained to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “[I have] two Jewish parents and I went...

(JTA) — A British soccer team that had previously defended its fans’ self-designation as “yids” has for the first time asked they stop. Tottenham Hotspur, a prominent London team with a sizable Jewish fanbase and a reputation of being Jewish...

Barnabas Szollos, 23, finished in sixth place overall today in men’s alpine skiing at the Beijing Games, setting a new Israeli record for skiers in the Winter Olympics. Szollos came in 11th in downhill skiing and then took second place in speed slalom....

(JTA) — Jared Armstrong traveled to Israel on Birthright last year. He also spent months studying with an American Conservative rabbi in order to formally convert to Judaism, a step he wanted to take so he could move to Israel to play for the Hapoel...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A defensive tackle for the NFL’s Washington team said that if he had his druthers he’d break bread with Adolf Hitler. Jonathan Allen removed his offending tweet on Wednesday after Twitter blew up with outrage. Allen,...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A former staffer for the Washington football team accused her boss of using “Jewish slurs” and other forms of verbal harassment during her time with the organization. “I was called Jewish slurs that refer to a non-Jewish...

(JTA) — Despite the continuing COVID chaos and the mounting protests about China’s human rights record, the 2022 Beijing Olympics are proceeding on schedule, just six months after the delayed Tokyo games — and we have your guide to the Jewish athletes...

This story was originally published on Feb. 2 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Looking over the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey rosters, one certainly sees some familiar hockey names...

Like it or not, numbers are as much a part of professional sports as the play on the field, diamond, or ice. While most credit MLB for initiating the move to bring statistical analytics to how sports teams play the games and build their organization,...