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Fast Forward He’s TV’s favorite mind reader. And he’s about to run 100 miles to support Ukrainian children.
Oz Pearlman, who won third place on Season 10 of “America’s Got Talent” as a mind reader, was supposed to run an ultramarathon in North Carolina last weekend. But he had to drop out at the 11th hour because of work. Disappointed, the endurance athlete and professional mentalist found a different outlet for his energy….
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Fast Forward ‘Bible Marathon’ Takes Runners Through Ancient Jewish Sites
With the sound of the shofar, the runners will set off, racing through the heart of Israel. In a way, the Bible Marathon, which this year lands on Sept. 28, retells an event from the Book of Samuel, Breaking Israel News reported Tuesday. In the story, shortly after the Jews entered the Land of Israel,…
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Breaking News Haredi Men Detained Allegedly En Route To Disrupt Jerusalem Marathon
(JTA) — Israeli police detained dozens of Haredi bus passengers whom officers said were bound for Jerusalem in order to disrupt the city’s annual marathon. The buses were intercepted Friday morning between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Army Radio reported. Police learned about the buses from a young man they arrested Thursday, the report said. He…
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Breaking News Tel Aviv And Jerusalem Marathons Revel In A ‘Healthy Competition’
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Noah Roth likes to recall two moments from Israeli marathons in which he’s raced: a competitor in Jerusalem breezing by him in 2010 wearing all-black, haredi Orthodox garb but for a white athletic shirt; and a Russian woman on this city’s Allenby Street who last year handed sprinters cups of clear-liquid…
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Life How Breastfeeding Israeli Marathon Runner Went From Olympic Hero to Scapegoat
Within less than six months, Lonah Chemtai Korlima has gone from being embraced by the public as she fought the bureaucracy to obtain Israeli citizenship to facing a storm of criticism over her performance at the Olympics. Chemtai arrived in Israel as an employee of the Kenyan consulate and later married track coach Dan Salpeter….
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Breaking News Mixed-Up Israeli Runner Starts London Marathon at Finish by Mistake
A police officer from Haifa was the last runner to start this year’s London Marathon after he mixed up the finish line for the starting line. Interviewed by the BBC near the starting line, Hagai Penkar explained that he showed up first at the finish line on Sunday after plugging the wrong information into his…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Cheer Boston Marathon Guilty Verdict
Jewish groups praised the guilty verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted on all 30 charges Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Boston. The explosions at the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon set by Tsarnaev and his brother killed three, including an 8-year-old boy, and also injured more than 240,…
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