Former St. Louisan Sarah Jacobsohn was named the 2024 Women’s Athlete of the Year by Ultimate Canada and awarded Co-Defensive Player of the Year by Ultiworld, the premier news media site dedicated to the sport of ultimate (frisbee). Jacobsohn was born...
By Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 10, 2025
A performer unfurled a banner showing the Sudanese and Palestinian flags and the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday.
The performer, who was not immediately identified,...
By Benyamin Cohen, The Forward
• Published February 9, 2025
The Philadelphia Eagles have plowed their way to Super Bowl 2025 behind the “tush push,” a play as straightforward as football gets: when the Eagles need a yard — whether on third-and-short, fourth-and-inches, or at the goal line — quarterback...
When more than 100 million viewers tune into the Super Bowl on Sunday, they’ll see Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady go toe to toe in a 30-second spot, screaming in each other’s faces.
The commercial is the second annual Super Bowl ad produced by the...
As a teenager, Agnes Keleti’s athletic pursuits were interrupted by the Nazis, who murdered her father along with more than 500,000 other Hungarian Jews.
As a centenarian, she became a global sensation for not only surviving the Holocaust but returning...
Jewish pitcher Max Fried has reportedly signed an eight-year, $218 million contract with the New York Yankees, the largest contract ever for a Jewish player as well as for a left-handed pitcher.
Fried, who turns 31 in January, entered the MLB offseason...
After a historic football season at BYU, Jake Retzlaff received his latest honor, placing him in the company of Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali: having his face grace an iconic box of food.
Retzlaff, the star quarterback at Brigham Young University,...
Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff — known in football as a “special teams” play.
For most football players, kickoffs are in fact routine. But if anything about the play was special, it was Salz’s presence...
As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in this year’s World Series, some recall the first time the two teams met in the Fall Classic, in 1941—a contest remembered for one of baseball’s most famous plays. But that World Series was...
BY KEVIN DEUTSCH, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 23, 2024
KANSAS CITY — Move over, Taylor Swift. A band of die-hard, Jewish fans of the Kansas City Chiefs are bringing a little yiddishkeit — and lots of girl power — to Chiefs Kingdom.
Across St. Louis County on game days, these Jewish women of all ages...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 17, 2024
A golf trip to Bandon Dunes in Oregon or The Belfry in England means booking tee times many months in advance, making travel plans and a hefty budget. Or you could play those two golf courses virtually for the cost of a dozen Titleist Pro V1 balls. That’s...
As the NHL drops the puck on the 2024-2025 hockey season, Jewish fans will have plenty to root for.
The season officially began last week with a pair of games in Prague between Jack and Luke Hughes’s New Jersey Devils and Devon Levi and Jason Zucker’s...
