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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 Israeli Woman Chases Down Man Who Flashed And Tried To Grab Her
(JTA) — An Israeli woman who lives in Massachusetts chased down and held a man who exposed himself to her while she was jogging. Single mother Aia Polansky, 33, was running in Cambridge when the male jogger dropped his pants to his knees as she ran by. Polansky, a 6-foot-1-inch-tall veteran of the Israel Defense…
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Community The Peace Process Isn’t Bringing Jews And Arabs Together — But Running Is.
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process may be going nowhere, but in Jerusalem, a grassroots initiative connecting Jews and Arabs through physical activity is giving residents hope for a better future in a divided city. Some 1,000 teenagers and adults gathered on November 9 at…
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Fast Forward A Bridge Covered With Swastikas Stuns A Runner On Her Regular Route
Rebecca Konstandt is a devoted athlete who usually finishes her workouts on a runner’s high — but not on Tuesday. Instead, her regular route ended with the discovery of swastikas spray painted across n a bridge in Essex County, New Jersey. “This is beyond stupid kids,” she wrote on Facebook. “This is not acceptable.” Konstandt,…
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News Triathlete Pia Levine Races Against Terrorism
Pia Levine, who is scheduled to compete in the Aquaphor NYC Triathlon on July 14, runs in a way that differs from other endurance athletes. Having survived a Jerusalem bus bombing in March 2011, just two days before running her first marathon, she says she participates to show that she has not been defeated by…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva Student Stops Race To Help Collapsed Runner
In the middle of a high school cross country meet in Memphis, Tenn., one boy collapsed. A Jewish student from a rival school was the only runner to stop his race to help. Seth Goldstein, 17, of the Orthodox Cooper Yeshiva High, seems to think his actions were only to be expected. “I’m a lifeguard,”…
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