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Fast Forward The sky’s no limit for this Jewish 14-year-old who broke a national high jump record
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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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