Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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News An Oct. 7 survivor and other Jewish and Israeli athletes to watch at the Paris Paralympics
Israel has won 384 medals at the Paralympics dating back to 1960.
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Fast Forward For the first time in two decades, a sports video game gets a Jewish cover athlete. Or three.
Quinn, Jack and Luke Hughes will grace the cover of the 2025 edition of EA Sports’ popular NHL video game.
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Fast Forward One of Israel’s flag bearers in the Paralympics is a survivor of Oct. 7
Berdichevsky, the No. 41 ranked men’s wheelchair tennis player in the world, hid with his family for 14 hours as Hamas attacked their kibbutz on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Shaq recorded a video in Hebrew for Israeli kids whose relatives were killed or captured on Oct. 7
In the video, Shaquille O’Neal offers a string of Hebrew messages to the kids, including “Baruch Hashem,” which translates roughly to “God bless"
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Fast Forward 100 US rabbis and cantors urge Netanyahu to finalize deal to free remaining hostages
The statement references the 'unimaginable horrors' of the now 10-month war, but does not use the word 'ceasefire' or mention the death toll of Palestinian citizens in Gaza
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Fast Forward France suspends Olympic runner for anti-Israel posts, including one wishing the ‘most terrible and horrible degree of hell’ for Zionists
Muhammad Abdallah Kounta shared a post during the Israel-Hamas war asking Allah to “strike the Zionists"
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News Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler ‘gave us the Olympics we have today’
In a conversation with JTA, Gladwell explains Hitler’s lasting influence on the Olympics and gives his take on the veracity of calls to ban Israeli athletes from international competition
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News All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Jewish and Israeli athletes have won 18 total medals so far in sports ranging from swimming and judo to sailing and fencing at the 2024 Paris Games
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Culture Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
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Fast Forward Israel’s bobsled team is chasing more than medals in its first Olympic outing in Milan
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Opinion Debate over the Blue Square Super Bowl ad is fading. The racist responses from my fellow Jews will be felt longer.
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