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News Remembering Jewish baseball legend Hank Greenberg’s 1934 Rosh Hashanah dilemma
Almost 90 years ago, as all of Detroit held its breath, the Hall of Fame slugger went to a synagogue to think over whether to play on the holiday
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Fast Forward Boston Red Sox fire Chaim Bloom, former Jewish baseball wunderkind
Bloom, who is Shabbat observant, joined Boston after the 2019 season with enormous expectations.
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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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News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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News Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
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Opinion Jews are worried about Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why they shouldn’t be
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Opinion Does that Trump Time Magazine cover really reference a Nazi war criminal?
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Opinion Demanding loyalty of the U.S. military, Trump hungers for ‘the kind of generals that Hitler had’
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Culture Leonard Bernstein wrote a love song to the White House; now it’s an elegy
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Fast Forward As 1000+ rabbis sign anti-Mamdani letter, others decry mounting ‘red lines’ in Jewish communities
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