Howard M. Wasserman is a professor of law and associate dean for research & faculty development at FIU College of Law.
Howard M. Wasserman
By Howard M. Wasserman
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Sports How at least one Jewish baseball player has beaten the Koufax jinx and the Kol Nidre curse
Statistics prove that playing on the holiest day of the year can be problematic for some Jewish players — not so for Alex Bregman
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Culture Are Jews who play baseball on the High Holidays really cursed?
We ran the stats to find out whether the 'Koufax Curse' is really a thing
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Sports These Jews were among baseball’s all-time greats — but do they count as Jewish baseball players?
If you convert after your career is over, were your accomplishments Jewish feats? The Talmudic answer is unclear.
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Culture Why this will be the most Jewish World Series in baseball history
The immediate narrative surrounding the 2021 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros is that it matches teams that no one outside their respective fan bases wants to root for. The Astros are one year removed from being exposed, although largely unpunished, in the largest sign-stealing scandal in baseball history (one’s anger…
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Culture Why playing baseball on Yom Kippur matters
Yom Kippur has many particularities — repeating “Kol Nidre” three times; Leonard Cohen’s take on “Una Taneh Tokef”; bagels for breakfast. A fourth feature — more cultural, perhaps, but a Jewish practice — is wondering whether Jewish major leaguers will play on the Holy Day and how they will do. In 2019, Tablet’s Armin Rosen…
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