Getty Images (JTA) — Earlier this week, Jewish news outlets ran reports on American ice dancers Charlie White and Meryl Davis winning Olympic gold. All these outlets reported — based on previously published articles — that White was Jewish. It appears we were all misinformed. The Detroit Jewish News — which initially report White’s supposed…
A sultry performance that lasted four spellbinding minutes, but was 17 years in the making, propelled Meryl Davis and Charlie White to become the first Americans to win the Olympic ice dance title at the Sochi Games on Monday. **UPDATE: Charlie White raised as Christian in family with Jewish members. In a showdown with rivals…
(JTA) — Julia Lipnitskaia, a 15-year-old Russian skating prodigy, took home the Olympic gold with a routine set to John Williams’ “Theme from Schindler’s List.” Lipnitskaia skated in a red costume meant to evoke the iconic “girl in the red coat,” who briefly appears in the movie “Schindler’s List” to enhance the pathos of a…
For one Jewish family in New Zealand, August began with one daughter competing in the summer Olympic Games and winning a gold medal. It draws to a close with a second daughter celebrating the bat mitzvah many feared she would not live to attend. To say the least, it has been an emotional time for…
So far, no Israeli athlete has captured a medal, although one Israeli citizen is likely to change that before the end of the Games. The only thing is, she’ll do it in an American uniform. As the United States continues to cruise toward a gold medal in women’s basketball, Sue Bird is coming closer to…
Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support for an Olympic moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 during an interview following her gold medal win. “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” Raisman told reporters of her floor routine to the music of “Hava Nagila,” the New York Post…
Aly’s our gold medal girl! American Aly Raisman won the women’s floor exercise title in the final artistic gymnastics event at the London Games on Tuesday after defending champion Sandra Izbasa fell on her last tumble. Raisman added gold to the bronze she had earned for the balance beam 90 minutes earlier and the team…
Four-time gold medalist Jason Lezak, competing in likely what is his final Olympics, helped the American swim team qualify for the 4×100-meter freestyle relay finals. Lezak swam in the morning preliminaries on Sunday but did not compete that evening in the finals, when the U.S. took the silver medal. For Lezak it was his eighth…
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