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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
Kerr, whose father was assassinated in Beirut in 1984, has long been outspoken on politics
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Sports An Orthodox Jewish hooper famous for viral dunks aims to break Division-I boundaries
Chaim Galbut will play basketball for Duquesne University
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Sports Deni Avdija might not win Most Improved Player. But he can achieve something greater.
The winner of Tuesday’s Play-In advances to the one place Avdija’s never been in his six seasons: the NBA Playoffs.
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Fast Forward Jewish basketball legend Amar’e Stoudemire to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame
Stoudemire converted to Judaism and played in Israel after retiring from the NBA
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Fast Forward YU loses in Sweet 16, as Zevi Samet puts up 43 points in his last game with the Maccabees
Coach Elliot Steinmetz said he was proud his players were 'upset that they lost as opposed to just happy that they were here.'
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University fans gear up for Sweet Sixteen run — and a Shabbat in Atlanta
The YU Maccabees have made the Sweet Sixteen round of March Madness once before, in 2020 — but the tournament was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Fast Forward Team Israel wins twice at World Baseball Classic, qualifying for 2030 tournament
The team did better than in 2023 but not as well as during its Cindarella run in 2017
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Sports Israeli bobsled captain on Olympics exit: ‘Holy endeavor’ slammed into rigid rule
In an interview with the Forward, AJ Edelman said a teammate’s cold feet landed the group in hot water
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Culture Trump announced a national Shabbat — and a giant celebration of Christianity the very next day