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Fast Forward Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78
He would later work at a local JCC and as a manager in Israel’s short-lived professional baseball league
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Fast Forward An NBA star gave a jersey to an Oct. 7 victim’s family. Some fans are furious.
Chicago Bulls star DeMar DeRozan’s crime of compassion
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Opinion I’m obsessed with Caitlin Clark. Do I choose her over Shabbat?
A crucial game for the Iowa basketball star in her final collegiate season tips off right at candle lighting
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Fast Forward A scandalous Jewish NBA rivalry is taking shape — in the owner’s box
Think Jacob and Esau, but with home financing
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Sports German national team to change jersey numbers that resembled Nazi logo
Who knew the number '44' could look so menacing?
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: Enviable seasons for a Jewish NHL star and an almost-Jewish NBA star
It’s been a year of highs for Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman and Sacramento Kings big man Domantas Sabonis
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Sports Can you discuss a Jewish NHL player’s 50-goal season without noting his ‘insanely rich’ family?
Zach Hyman's impressive achievement was briefly overshadowed by a hockey analyst's insistence on — you guessed it — context
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Fast Forward New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’
Gardner said he did not know that he was echoing a common antisemitic trope
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Fast Forward Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
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Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
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Opinion The real reason for the US war with Iran may have nothing to do with Israel
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Film & TV Walter Benjamin knew what Timothée Chalamet meant about opera and ballet
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Culture For the ‘Jazz Rabbi’ of Connecticut, music and Judaism are both about tradition and improvisation
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Fast Forward Nick Fuentes apologized for assaulting a Jewish woman. This is her story.
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Fast Forward 2 more Toronto-area synagogues hit with gunfire on Shabbat, raising alarm among local Jews
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