Frederic J. Frommer, a politics and sports journalist and the author of several books, including “You Gotta Have Heart: Washington Baseball from Walter Johnson to the 2019 World Series Champion Nationals.” Follow him on Twitter @ffrommer or email ffrommer@gmail.com.
Frederic J. Frommer
By Frederic J. Frommer
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Culture Why one actor threatened to boycott the Seinfeld circumcision episode
Jason Alexander said he’s usually fine with jokes about Jews, but the script struck him as antisemitic
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News 50 years ago East Germany gained admission to the UN over one objection — Israel’s
Israel’s ambassador backed West Germany but said East Germany did not deserve to join the family of nations
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Sports He grew up on a kibbutz. Now he’s coaching the Cincinnati Reds
Alon Leichman’s parents, who moved from the US to Israel before he was born, helped found the sport in the Jewish state
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News The State Department told Truman not to recognize Israel. He did it anyway
The Arab world would turn against the U.S., diplomats warned the president, and might threaten its access to oil
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Sports ‘A simple shared love’: A Jewish sportswriter pays tribute to his immigrant father’s baseball dreams
Veteran sportswriter Jerry Izenberg's book about his Lithuania-born father and growing up Jewish in Newark will publish on May 1
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Sports 50 years ago, a Yankee became the first designated hitter — and ‘designated Hebrew’
In the major leagues, Ron Blomberg embraced his Jewishness, and earned a place in baseball history
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News ‘A challenge to the soul of man’: 80 years ago, Hollywood stars pleaded for Europe’s Jews
The audience at the mass memorial overflowed Madison Square Garden, the site four years earlier for a rally of American Nazis
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Sports ‘You made me the greatest’: Muhammad Ali’s beloved cornerman was Jewish
Drew Brown was known as the heavyweight champ’s personal poet, penning ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’
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