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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: How the MLB’s Jewish players will handle Yom Kippur this year
Plus Chelsea F.C. launches a Jewish fan group and Adidas' CEO defends Kanye West
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Fast Forward The MLB has more Jewish players than ever — but none of them will be faced with a Yom Kippur dilemma this year
The players who have faced the conflict in the past are scheduled to play just before or after the holy day
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: Hank Greenberg’s 1934 High Holiday conundrum
Chaim Bloom gets fired, Quinn Hughes is named captain of the Vancouver Canucks and more in this week's Jewish Sport Report
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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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