(JTA) — For many American Jews, there is an annual celebration near the beginning of spring that serves as a respite from the long winter months, and a symbol of hope and renewal: Opening Day.
Not this year.
Major League Baseball and its players association...
(JTA) — Israeli-Canadian hockey player Eliezer Sherbatov detailed his harrowing experience fleeing Ukraine as war broke out last week on Instagram and in an emotional interview with Canada’s The Sports Network.
Sherbatov, a longtime captain of Israel’s...
(JTA) — Ali Marpet, who won a Super Bowl protecting Tom Brady as an offensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, announced his retirement on Sunday via Instagram.
Marpet’s announcement was widely received as a shock around the football world....
(JTA) — The Boston Red Sox released a minor league player following an antisemitic and homophobic social media outburst, in which he specifically targeted the organization’s chief baseball officer, Chaim Bloom, who is Jewish.
Brett Netzer called...
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,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 23, 2022
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...
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN, Israel21c.org
• Published February 10, 2022
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,...
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The parade of Olympic athletes in their national colors, the international diplomatic corps looking...
