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Fast Forward Baltimore Ravens Lineman To Wear Israeli Flag On His Cleats
(JTA) — As a defensive lineman for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, Michael Pierce has no love for quarterbacks. But the non-Jewish 340-pound athlete from Alabama does have a soft spot for Israel. Pierce selected the Israel Collective, a millennial arm of the Christians United for Israel organization, as his cause for the league’s “My Cause,…
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Fast Forward NFL Kicker Makes Game-Winning Field Goal On Day He Got New Mezuzah
(JTA) — Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day. On Sunday, Rabbi Yossi Freedman, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Downtown Cleveland, affixed the mezuzah on the doorpost of Joseph’s city apartment and the rookie kicker hit a 37-yarder…
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The Schmooze Jewish NFL Stud Julian Edelman Shares Pro-Israel New Year Greeting
Muscles rippling under a thin white t-shirt, head bowed beneath a polyester-sateen kippah, New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman prayed at Jerusalem’s Western Wall in a new year greeting posted to social media. Say that sentence six times and your ancestors will rise from their graves and start a spontaneous hora. Edelman, a 32-year-old…
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Fast Forward Patriots’ Julian Edelman Facing 4-Game Suspension For Doping
(JTA) — New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman reportedly is facing a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs, but he is appealing. League sources told ESPN of the suspension on Thursday, the sports network reported. One league source said Edelman was appealing, as he has never tested positive despite taking…
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Fast Forward NFL Star Antonio Brown’s Mansion Has A Synagogue In It
(JTA) — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown owns an enormous mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Inside, along with the dozen bedrooms and private movie theater, sits an in-home synagogue. Brown isn’t Jewish, but he showed off the house (more accurately, one of his multiple houses) and impressive sneaker collection in an interview with Complex…
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The Schmooze Meet Josh Rosen: Football’s Mouthy, Jewish New Star
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…
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Fast Forward NFL Owners Robert Kraft And Jeffrey Lurie Slam ‘Disastrous’ Trump On Secret Tape
An audio tape of a confidential meeting last October reveals that NFL owners — including two prominent Jews — were highly concerned about President Donald Trump’s comments that were critical of players kneeling during the national anthem. The New York Times reports that it obtained the audio recording of the three-hour session in which owners,…
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Fast Forward Chabad Hosting Kosher Tailgate Outside Super Bowl LII
Many Jews will go to extreme lengths to find kosher food, and Super Bowl Sunday is no exception — even when that means braving a tailgate in expected subzero temperatures. U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which is hosting Super Bowl LII, does not have a kosher concession stand. So a group of rabbis affiliated with…
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