(JTA) — Just after the conclusion of Hanukkah, the Worcester Academy varsity girls’ basketball team prepared to face a rival private school. Head coach Sherry Levin addressed her team before tipoff. The theme of her pregame pep talk? The shamash. “The...

There's no other way around it. The 2022 Major League Baseball season has a moderate chance of being delayed in some capacity. Fans, the ones who pay their hard-earned wages to fill stadiums, can't control a thing. Blame the owners for being bloodhound...

(Israel21c) - Israel notched its first para taekwondo gold medal after Asaf Yasur beat all competitors in the under-58 kg category of the World Para Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul on December 11. Yasur, 19, had both hands amputated five years...

TIGRE, Argentina (JTA) — One of Argentina’s main Jewish community centers inaugurated its news tennis complex in honor of hometown hero Diego Schartzman. Schwartzman, currently ranked 13th in the world, was on hand at the ceremony held Dec. 12...

Maxie Rosenbloom was one tough Jew. Born September 6, 1904, in Leonard’s Bridge, Connecticut, Maxie Rosenblum grew up and leaned to box in Harlem's Union Settlement in New York. He turned pro in 1923, and slowly rose up the ranks of the sport. On...

(JTA) — Israeli officials are expected to attend the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing next year, unlike their American counterparts who will boycott the game to protest China’s human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority. Haaretz reported...

This story ‘A baseball star and all-around mensch finally makes it to the Hall of Fame’ was originally published on Nov. 30 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.” The...

Old Busch Stadium, aka Busch Stadium 2.0, will always be a special place for me--even if the building has been gone for 16 years. That's because, on Dec. 7, 2005, the building was essentially blown up, turned to rubble for the new stadium to rise up...

Jim Kaat, the MLB journeyman starting pitcher and former Cardinals hurler-turned broadcast personality, was elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday along with five other legends in the Class of 2022 by the Golden Days Era Committee. Kaat...

(JTA) — For Jewish sports fans, it can sometimes feel as if simply having star Jewish athletes to root for is a miracle.  Yet despite antisemitic stereotypes to the contrary, Jewish athletes have achieved some pretty incredible accomplishments.  For...

Ask any Montreal Expos fans what a strike feels like, and the impending Major League Baseball lockout on Thursday won't feel so bad. Back in 1994, the Expos were on a direct path to the World Series; it was only a matter of time before they hoisted...

If you had asked me until recently about the DeWitt family, I would have told you that they are a wealthy local clan that bought the St. Louis Cardinals from Anheuser-Busch in the 1990s. Just millionaires buying assets from a large corporation, it...