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Sports Meet the American Jewish goalie who will try to stop the great Messi
Maccabi Haifa snuck into the Champions League. Its reward: Facing one of the greatest soccer teams ever assembled
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News All the Jewish NFL players to watch this season
From the starters to the free agents hoping to return to action soon
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News This Holocaust survivor and Brazilian swimming champion is still competing at 98
Nora Tausz Ronai, who started swimming competitively at age 69, has become an inspiration to athletes young and old for more than their physical accomplishments
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Sports What Sue Bird means to her Jewish fans
Reflecting on two decades of inspiration as the hoops legend retires
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Sports Packers running back talks Hebrew schooling in very Jewish podcast appearance
AJ Dillon's got crazy quads, a popping TikTok and ... afikoman prizes?
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Sports This Jewish water polo player defied Hitler in 1936
Kurt Epstein refused to boycott the Olympics, and was later deported to Terezin and Auschwitz
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News How the 1972 Munich Massacre unfolded, through the eyes of athletes in the Olympic village
Fifty years later, members of the U.S. men’s basketball team look back at how confusion reigned throughout the infamous day.
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Fast Forward Why Scotland’s fiercest soccer rivalry features Israeli vs. Palestinian flags
Jewish Celtic and Rangers fans feel caught in the middle of a fight that many say has more to do with Scotland’s deep religious and cultural divides than it does with Israeli-Palestinian politics
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
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