Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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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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	Fast Forward Jewish water polo star Sienna Green wins silver with Australia
Green, whose father played in the Maccabiah Games, scored three goals during the Olympic women’s water polo tournament
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	Fast Forward Israel’s rhythmic gymnastics team wins silver, Israel’s 7th medal in Paris
The secretary general of Israel’s Olympic committee said his country’s seventh medal represents “our victory over what happened on Oct. 7"
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	Fast Forward Jewish Australian race walker Jemima Montag wins second bronze medal in Paris
Montag captured bronze in the inaugural marathon mixed relay, days after placing third in the 20-kilometer race walk
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	Fast Forward Australian canoeists Jessica and Noemie Fox join rare company as Jewish siblings to win Olympic gold medals
The Fox sisters each won gold in canoe slalom events in Paris, joining a small group of Jewish siblings to medal at the same Olympics
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	Fast Forward Israel wins 3 medals — including a gold — in historic day at Paris Olympics
Israel has won six medals in Paris, its most ever in a single Olympics
 
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	Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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	Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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	Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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	News Mamdani opposes Zionism, but wants New York public schools to teach about it
 
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	Fast Forward 2 of NYC’s 5 public pension funds are vulnerable to a mayor-backed Israel divestment push
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	Fast Forward What to know about ‘Not On Our Dime,’ Zohran Mamdani’s bill targeting donations to Israeli settlements
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	BINTEL BRIEF She just wants to be a good person. But she’s overwhelmed by the state of the world
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	Fast Forward Why Jeremy Corbyn’s support for Zohran Mamdani is fueling antisemitism fears
 
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