Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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News ESPN’s Jeff Passan opens up on his Hebrew school upbringing, interviewing Sandy Koufax and Jewish baseball history
One of the game’s top reporters grew up attending Hebrew school three times a week
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Culture ‘Swastika boards’ and ‘surf Nazis’: New documentary explores surfing’s history of antisemitism
In 'Waves Apart,' director Josh Greene chronicles how he learned about the history from his bar mitzvah party and talks with famous Jewish surfers
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Fast Forward Team Israel’s baseball players were also filmmakers for a new documentary about their 2020 Olympic run
“Israel Swings for Gold” premieres Saturday at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
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Fast Forward A Jewish expert on monuments on what Philly’s famous Rocky Balboa statue can teach us about memory
Paul Farber, the host of the new NPR podcast “The Statue,” shares some Jewish nuggets from the “Rocky” franchise
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Fast Forward NBA player Meyers Leonard opens up on his antisemitism scandal to Jewish ESPN reporter
Leonard said he thought about suicide in the fallout of the incident
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University fans prepare to welcome back Ryan Turell for his first G League game in New York — right after Shabbat
Turell’s father helped get the Feb. 4 game moved to after sundown to accommodate Shabbat-observant fans
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Fast Forward ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman among International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame’s 11 inductees for 2023
The honorees span geography and are decorated players and coaches in sports ranging from basketball to fencing and judo.
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Fast Forward Robert Kraft’s $18,003 donation to fundraiser for NFL player who suffered cardiac arrest has symbolic meaning
The donation includes nods to the Hebrew chai and to Damar Hamlin’s jersey number
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