Aimee Berg
By Aimee Berg
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News US wrestling phenom Amit Elor has overcome personal tragedy and online antisemitism. Now, she will vie for gold in Paris.
Elor, whose parents are Israeli, is the youngest U.S. Olympic wrestler in history.
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News Jewish fencers make up nearly a third of the 2024 US Olympic fencing team in Paris
Three of the six Jewish fencers were knocked out of individual competition in early rounds
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Life The Next Jewish Miss America?
In the 89-year history of the Miss America pageant, there has been only one Jewish winner: Bess Myerson, in 1945. On January 15, there may be another: Loren Galler Rabinowitz, Miss Massachusetts. The 24-year-old Harvard University graduate from Brookline is the daughter of two doctors, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and a novice when it…
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Israel News Swimmer Heads to Olympics, Again
Dara Torres made a splash over the weekend at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Neb. She not only qualified for two individual events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics — her fifth time at the games — but she also won the finals of the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle events, and set the American…
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News Football Pro Keeps Her Faith on the Gridiron
When asked during Seder this year, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” Miriam Gable could have answered, “Because I’m missing the first game of my professional football career.” But there was no bitterness — or uncertainty — that Passover would prevail over her season opener. Gable grew up Orthodox, with nine siblings,…
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Israel News Young Israeli Windsurfer Sails to Olympics
Israel’s only Olympic gold medalist, Gal Fridman, will not go to Beijing this summer to defend his 2004 windsurfing title. Instead, the country’s lone male sailboarder will be 21-year-old Shahar Zubari of Eilat, who secured the right to represent Israel by capturing a bronze medal in January in this year’s World Championships in New Zealand….
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News His Path: From Jewish Camp to the Oscars
Often, the biggest question at the Oscars besides “Who’s going to win?” is “Who is that?” followed by the thought: “Wonder what he’ll be doing next year.” Turns out, one of the men who stood with Al Gore to accept the 2007 Oscar for best documentary had already been the key creative force behind several…
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Israel News Israeli Boxer Faces German Champ
Later this month, Israel’s Hagar Finer will have what she calls “the biggest opportunity” of her professional boxing career. On November 30, the Tel Aviv native will vie for the Women’s International Boxing Federation flyweight world championship belt against Regina Halmich, one of Germany’s best female boxers and a former sparring partner of Finer’s. It…
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