At Maccabiah Games, 300 Jewish American athletes become bar and bat mitzvah
As kids, many spent more time on sports than in Hebrew school. The "Jewish Olympics" give them a chance to go through the ceremony in Israel.
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High-scoring hora: NBA star Embiid hoisted at Jewish wedding
Who was more scared with the All-NBA center on a chair: Philly basketball fans or Embiid himself?
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Two Jewish players to appear in MLB All-Star game
The National League hasn't won in a decade. Joc Pederson and Max Fried will try to change that
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When almost nobody else would, Hank Greenberg backed a Black player fighting for free agency
Fifty years ago, the Jewish Hall of Famer testified on behalf of Curt Flood, whose stand against MLB’s reserve clause made him a key figure in athletic activism
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At World Baseball Classic, Israel will need all the Jewish muscle it can muster
They're in a 'pool of death' with some Latin American powerhouses
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Chuppah dreams: NBA star Kevin Love married in Jewish ceremony
The NBA star signed a ketubah and the bridal gown was by Jewish designer
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Lennie Rosenbluth, forefather to North Carolina hoops legends, dead at 89
He went toe-to-toe with Wilt Chamberlain and came away with the Tar Heels' first national championship
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The day Sandy Koufax became one of the greatest pitchers of all time
For 6 seasons, the Jewish pitcher struggled. On June 30, 1962, his eminence revealed itself.
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Yeshiva’s Ryan Turell weighing ‘options’ after injury dims draft hopes
His father said he is weighing offers from Israeli professional teams and the G League, the NBA’s developmental league
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‘Ironic’: Koufax statue to be unveiled on Shabbat
'Obviously they don’t have a yiddishe kopf running the operation,' one fan said.
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A Jewish Giant gets slapped by a Cincinnati Red — and mostly shrugs it off
A baseball beef for the fantasy football generation.
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