Lewis Burik may not play in a single Stanford football game this season. At practice, the sophomore inside linebacker trains with everyone else. At games, Burik is on the sidelines, a walk-on to a football team ranked seventh in the country. But Burik, who was raised as a Reform Jew, with a Jewish mother and…
— The social media sites of Hollywood actress and writer Lena Dunham have not been updated since she apologized on them to football star Odell Beckham Jr. for making “narcissistic assumptions” about how he acted when seated with her at a dinner. Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series “Girls,” issued the apology on…
The giant, Jewish, professional-football playing brothers Geoff and Mitch Schwartz are publishing a memoir: Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food, Family, and Faith. They have been in the NFL at the same time since the 2012 season, and have played against each other a few times. They were raised in a Conservative…
San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick made waves this week by declining to stand during the national anthem at a pre-season game. Kaepernick, who has sat out the national anthem during at least one previous pre-season game, has faced backlash from those who see the refusal to stand as unpatriotic, disrespectful, and worse — specifically, that…
Sometimes you can really put your foot in your mouth on Twitter. Miko Grimes, the outspoken wife of Tampa Bay Buccaneers star cornerback Brent Grimes, got into some hot water on Twitter after she used anti-Semitic language to critique the Jewish owners of her husband’s former team, the Miami Dolphins. The rant may not have…
(JTA) — Following eight years of struggle, an Israeli mother named Adina Porat finally received a Jewish writ of divorce, or get, earlier this month, bringing back into the headlines the plight of “agunot” — so-called chained women trapped in marriages and unable to move on because their husbands refuse to grant a divorce. Porat’s…
(JTA) — Ohio State may not be know who will be starting at quarterback as its season opener approaches, but the Buckeye who will be snapping is a sure thing: Jacoby Boren, the football squad’s Jewish center and newly named co-captain. Boren, a senior, was named one of six co-captains last week by coach Urban…
Canada’s professional football league has fined a player for posting anti-Semitic material on his Twitter account. The Canadian Football League (CFL) fined U.S.-born Khalif Mitchell, a defensive lineman for the Montreal Alouettes, an undisclosed amount. He also received the “maximum allowable” fine from his team, which signed him to a three-year contract in February. Mitchell,…
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