Teen Baltimore Athletes Participate in Maccabi Games, Summer of Learning in Israel
Young Jewish athletes from the Baltimore area recently played sports against international competitors at the 41st JCC Maccabi Games.
Teenage competitors arrived in the Israeli...
Jerry Izenberg, Who Worked as a Reporter for 72 Years, Publishes New Memoir
Over the course of an illustrious 72-year career as a newspaper reporter, Jerry Izenberg has just about seen it all.
The longtime columnist for The...
Jewish Yankee Harrison Bader Talks Baseball at Liebman’s Deli
What better way to recover from an injury than some Jewish penicillin?
New York Yankees Jewish outfielder Harrison Bader, who is missing the beginning of...
NBA Star Domantas Sabonis’ Wife Says He Is Converting to Judaism
Domantas Sabonis, 26-year-old All-Star and Sacramento Kings center, is in the process of converting to Judaism, according to his Jewish wife, Shashana Sabonis (née...
Jewish Groups Urge US Rugby Team to Withdraw From South African Tournament That Excluded...
A number of major American Jewish organizations are urging a California-based professional rugby team to pull out of an international competition that disinvited an...
Team Israel exits World Baseball Classic with 5-1 loss to Venezuela
They didn’t call it the “Pool of Death” for nothing.
After a 3-1 come-from-behind victory over Nicaragua on March 12, Israel finished the World Baseball...
Meet Team Israel’s 14-Year-Old Beth Tfiloh Batboy
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It was a muggy, cloudy day in Miami, but it was comfortable in the air-conditioned stadium with a retractable roof, where...
Yeshiva U. Basketball Team Forfeits Crucial Game, Citing Inadequate Warmup Time After Shabbat
If Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team had won its game Saturday night, on Feb. 18, it would have gone into the postseason ranked No....
‘Hebrew in the Huddle’: American Football Kicks Off Another Season in Israel
The year was 1999, and Jonathan Hauser was working as a concierge at the famous King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
At the time, Hauser was...
Pickleball Is Picking Up: Instructors Say It’s Healthy for Both Mind and Body
Pickleball started in 1965 with three men and some spare equipment; it was founded by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum on Bainbridge...
