Gerald Eskenazi
By Gerald Eskenazi
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Culture Honoring The Legends Of The Maccabiah Games
Jane Katz was wearing red. But she remembers the first jacket she wore at the Maccabiah Games — it was made for a man. This was not a good idea to the pioneering athlete. “I believe the first Title IX really began at the Maccabiah Games,” she said, good-naturedly at a remarkable and unusual New…
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News Super Bowl-Bound Arthur Blank on Why Jews Score as NFL Owners
In the 1950s, when Atlanta Falcons owner and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank grew up in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in the Sunnyside section of Queens — “My parents slept in a pull-out bed in the foyer,” he recalled — his family still managed to contribute to a puskhe. Jewish families put their pennies and…
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Culture Remembering Dolph Schayes, the Greatest Jewish Basketball Player Ever
Yes, of course Dolph Schayes was a legendary pro basketball player—as most of the stories noted following his death last week at the age of 87, probably the greatest Jewish basketball player in history. But although I was a sportswriter for more than 40 years with The New York Times, I met him only once….
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Culture A Personal History of Sports and Anti-Semitism
I thought about sports and anti-Semitism after reading about an extraordinarily ugly incident at a recent Dutch soccer game. And I realized that in my 44-year career at The New York Times, covering about 8,000 events, I personally witnessed only two such moments. And I wrote about only one other. I never was the object…
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Culture Will This Be the Most Kosher Super Bowl?
It may not be the first strictly kosher Super Bowl, but coming to the New York area for the first time it certainly will have the aroma of a Jewish kitchen in the stadium’s food courts and even the fancier sit-down restaurants and private boxes. “We will be the greenest and most kosher Super Bowl…
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News A Stroll Through Jewish Paris
I had a great idea: Take the whole family to Paris for our 50th anniversary. Even better: Make it a Jewish experience, as well. It is always a bit tricky planning grand events for a family when there are youngsters involved. In this case, a pair of teenagers — 17-year-old Corey and 13-year-old Jane, two…
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Culture Debunking Myth of the Unathletic Jew
I would not say I’ve become jaded, but I thought I had heard enough (and written enough) about Sandy Koufax not pitching on Yom Kippur. I knew the stories about Hank Greenberg and Al Rosen and those other outstanding Jewish ballplayers. And then one day, in the mail recently, I got a 24-page publication called…
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News Sixty Summers Ago, Dodgers Dream Died for a Jewish Boy
Sixty summers ago, almost to the day, the Dodgers of my Brooklyn were baseball’s greatest team. And they were the most Jewish, even when they weren’t. Why, they had baseball’s reigning Jewish player, Cal Abrams. What about those other guys with Jewish-sounding names? Pee Wee Reese! Duke Snider! We had the Jewish thing to ourselves…
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