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Sports ‘Hard work beats talent:’ Meet the 20-year-old Orthodox table tennis phenom battling discrimination and aiming for the Olympics
Estee Ackerman, a Yeshiva University senior, beat Rafael Nadal at ping pong as a preteen and is nationally ranked in her sport — and she’s just getting started
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Fast Forward Israel stuns Europe with poignant gold medal in team marathon in Munich
Israeli runners also nabbed silver and bronze medals in individual event
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News 10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should)
An updated version of sports writer Howard Megdal’s “The Baseball Talmud” offers the perfect opportunity to revisit some of the 20th century’s less heralded Jewish ballplayers
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Fast Forward Israeli families of Munich Olympics massacre victims to boycott German ceremony marking 50th anniversary
The families are calling the financial compensation that the German government will offer them 'a joke'
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Opinion In ‘A League of Their Own,’ queer representation is a home run. But Jewish representation leaves much to be desired
Executive produced by and starring Abbi Jacobson, the new series 'A League of Their Own' is a remake of the classic 1992 film
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Sports 50 years after making it to the baseball Hall of Fame, here’s how Sandy Koufax did it
The Brooklyn southpaw who famously skipped a World Series game on Yom Kippur may have been the greatest Jewish athlete ever
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Sports How LA’s Jewish high schools became NBA summer hotspots
A sanctuary for superstars and a brush of fame for hoops-obsessed high schoolers
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Sports Slow fastballs, tech wizardry and the perfect name: Meet the newest Jewish major leaguer
Jake Fishman’s heater may not touch 90, but it was effective in his MLB debut
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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