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Sports A Jewish pitcher was tapped to start the MLB All-Star game. In a menschy move, he gave it up.
Max Fried is one of two Jewish stars who were selected for this year's Summer Classic but won't play because of injury
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Sports He was one of the greatest Jewish soccer players who ever lived — pity you probably haven’t heard of him
Rinus Israël, who has died at 83, was the first Dutchman — and the first Jew — to lift the European Cup
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Sports Pick-and-deli-roll? Brooklyn Nets draft Jewish duo in an NBA first
The Nets selected Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf — both Israeli citizens — with the 26th and 27th picks
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Fast Forward Maccabiah Games postponed to 2026, as Israel-Iran war disruptions start to pile up
More than 8,000 athletes from 55 countries had been expected in Tel Aviv
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Sports Israeli driver Robert Shwartzman won Indy 500 pole — then talked about the war
The rookie driver from Tel Aviv will start next Sunday’s race in pole position
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Sports ‘All my homies hate paintball Nazis’: Antisemitism scandal tears through paintball community
Pro player Marcello Margott posted a video showing paintball gun that had Nazi insignia
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Sports ‘Regrettable’ pro-Israel tweets land Florida hockey exec in penalty box
An opposing team fan asked Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu to defend Israel's war tactics. He took the bait.
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Culture Is this heaven or is it New Jersey? 9 innings of the Jewish American pastime
On the ballfields of Montclair, New Jersey, an impromptu game triggers memories of baseball and Bible
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Film & TV Whoever said ‘you can’t take it with you’ never reckoned with this Jewish patriarch
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Fast Forward Students at Netanyahu’s Pennsylvania high school want him ejected from the alumni hall of fame
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