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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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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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