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Fast Forward An Israeli flag football team forfeited a game on Shabbat. It won the European championship anyway.
A majority of Israel’s under-17 men’s flag football players are Orthodox
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Fast Forward ‘Tatami,’ a film inspired by Iran’s Israeli athlete boycott, is making movie history
It is being billed as the first major film co-produced by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers
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Fast Forward Fan ejected from US Open match after chanting Nazi phrase at German player Alexander Zverev
'He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world. It’s not acceptable,' Zverev said to the umpire
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: All the Jews to watch in the NFL this season
Plus veteran catcher Ryan Lavarnway pens a children's book about playing for Team Israel
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News All the Jewish NFL players to watch in the 2023-2024 season
Plus a few off-the-field Jewish storylines and free agents looking to make comebacks
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: How a Jewish lawyer became baseball’s favorite ‘Pitching Ninja’
An Israeli soccer star heads to Germany, Jewish newlyweds celebrate at Yankee Stadium and more in this week's Jewish Sport Report
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Fast Forward Jared Armstrong, basketball player who fought for Israeli citizenship, is now working to promote Black-Jewish relations
A player whose months-long fight with the Interior Ministry cost him a spot in Israel’s top basketball league is running a clinic for Black and Jewish youngsters
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Fast Forward Super Bowl champion Leonard Fournette visits Jewish summer camp for children with cancer
'We all have our own problems, even myself, but the battle these kids face each and every day and for the rest of their lives, they’re the champions in our heart,' Fournette said during his visit
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Opinion Israelis want out of the Gaza war. But all the exit routes feel like traps
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