Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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Fast Forward Italy to bar soccer players from wearing No. 88, which has coded meaning for neo-Nazis
Italy’s government and the Italian soccer federation announced a joint initiative
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Fast Forward 7 Ukrainian teens will get a break from war at a Jewish sports camp in California this summer
Ramah Sports Academy in northern California will host six Ukrainian campers and one counselor during its July session
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News Meet Eliza Kanner: Israel advocate by day, New England Patriots cheerleader by night
The former Miss Connecticut, who is entering her third season with the Patriots, is also a senior development officer for Boston’s Jewish federation
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Fast Forward Gabe Plotkin, Jewish millionaire involved in GameStop saga, buys Charlotte Hornets from Michael Jordan
Plotkin said he received antisemitic messages from members of the Reddit forum that tried to save the video game store
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Fast Forward Ben Helfgott, one of two Holocaust survivors to compete in the Olympics, dies at 93
'Sir Ben Helfgott was one of the most inspirational people I have known,' said Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
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Fast Forward Lacrosse is on the rise in Israel, as its men’s national team enters the world championship ranked 7th
A little over a decade after the launch of the Israel Lacrosse Association, the sport is finding a foothold among native-born Israelis
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: This Holocaust survivor threw out the first pitch on her 100th birthday
Helen Kahan, who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps, was joined by her two children, plus five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren before the Tampa Bay Rays took on the Yankees
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Fast Forward How an unsung Jewish Harvard hero changed American sports
Gratz College President Zev Eleff’s new book tackles antisemitism and assimilation at Harvard in the 1920s
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
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Opinion Trump’s humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship
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Fast Forward After years of hostile relations with Israel, Slovenia’s new prime minister signals diplomatic reset
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