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Still reveling in his team’s win against the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen tweeted a clip Wednesday of him celebrating a play, captioned “Shabbat Shalom.” Just a little early, Josh! Shabbat Shalom #HebrewHammer ✡️ pic.twitter.com/uUoPIo3jVl — Josh Rosen (@josh3rosen) October 10, 2018 Let’s chalk it up to excitement. The game ended in…
Everything’s coming up Josh Rosen. The 21-year-old, a first-draft pick for the Arizona Cardinals in April, has been named to start as quarterback in the team’s upcoming game against the Seattle Seahawks. Rosen — the type of man to make a Jewish pop-culture reporter reconsider sports as a form of entertainment — is football’s newest…
There’s a famous Jewish folktale that goes like this: long ago, the prophet Elijah met an elderly couple who were so righteous that they were deserving of great reward. “Wish for one thing and I will fulfill it,” said the prophet. The couple was very old, very poor, childless and almost blind — they lacked…
Quarterback Josh Rosen was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals with the 10th pick in the National Football League draft. The UCLA star, dubbed the “Chosen Rosen” was once expected to be one of the top 5 picks, but slid in recent weeks. He was the fourth quarterback selected. “I’m more motivated than I’ve ever been,”…
(JTA) — Josh Rosen, the UCLA quarterback who was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals with the 10th pick in the NFL draft, told the league’s online magazine that a lot of the trash talk directed at him on the field is anti-Semitic. “I get a lot of Jewish things,” he told NFL.com reporter Michael Silver. “My…
Ever since I first embraced the mad romance of sports’ fandom as a boy, a romance that I have never outgrown, I just assumed that the reason there weren’t more Jewish professional athletes is that Jews weren’t very good at sports. A genetic thing. Sure, there was an occasional Hank Greenberg or Al Rosen or…
Two separate ESPN radio shows implied last week that top football prospect Josh Rosen would rather play in New York than Cleveland because of his Jewish background, The Big Lead reported. Rosen, a quarterback who attended UCLA, is expected to be one of the top picks in the upcoming NFL Draft. The Cleveland Browns have…
Josh Rosen, the star quarterback for the UCLA Bruins, is expected to declare his eligibility for the 2018 NFL draft, where he will likely be one of the top picks, if not #1 overall. At the age of 20, Rosen is already one of the most prominent Jewish athletes in the United States, both for…
