The Forward’s Jewish news covrage, stories and posts about sports
The Forward’s Jewish news covrage, stories and posts about sports
The Forward’s Jewish news covrage, stories and posts about sports
The Forward’s Jewish news covrage, stories and posts about sports
Call it a field of Latin American Jewish dreams. Last Sunday, hundreds of children in bright team colors surged across a sun-drenched Miami sports field as their families from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil cheered them on. They were there for Miami’s annual Hebraica Maccabi Games, which for four decades has brought together…
(JTA) — The only Jewish kicker in the NFL for years now, Greg Joseph is used to how mentally taxing the position can be. On Sunday, he found himself in another one of its do-or-die situations. With two seconds left to go in a tied game against the division-leading Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Joseph…
The first thing I noticed about Pascale Bercovitch was her energy. She all but glowed, although she said she was exhausted from trying to adapt to Tokyo time in advance of her flight to the 2020 Paralympics, which departed just a few hours after we spoke by video chat. Bercovitch is competing as a kayaker…
(JTA) — Jews love baseball — there’s no denying it. But when the baseball season opened in April, most major league stadiums were operating at restricted capacities and offered a limited number of concession stands. Not anymore. As the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rate has soared, many of the ballpark restrictions have been lifted, and remain…
Not long after Brandon Loschiavo started taking gymnastics at the age of four, he made a bold declaration to his mother. “He told me, ‘Mom, I’m going to go to the Olympics,’” recalled Laura Loschiavo. “He’s pretty committed, so once he says something he usually does it.” Nearly two decades later, Loschiavo is in Tokyo…
At 6 a.m. tomorrow, Team Israel will take on the United States in its second game of Olympics baseball. (Israel dropped its first game, 6-5, to South Korea in extra innings.) As you may have read before, Israel’s baseball team is largely made up of American-born players — who had to acquire Israeli citizenship to…
(JTA) — Talk about goals: Luke Hughes has become the third brother in his hockey-playing Jewish family to be drafted in the first round of the NHL Draft. The New Jersey Devils picked the 17-year-old defenseman fourth overall in Friday’s selections, making the Hughes brothers of Orlando, Florida, the first American family to have three…
(JTA) — Before last November, Shlomo Lipetz already had his dream job. After drinking coffee and listening to a morning news podcast — “The Daily,” from the New York Times — he would then take the L train from his Brooklyn apartment and head to his job as vice president for programming at City Winery,…
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