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Fast Forward Baseball phenom Jacob Steinmetz becomes first known Orthodox player drafted into the MLB
(JTA) — The Arizona Diamondbacks drafted Long Island, New York native Jacob Steinmetz 77th overall in the third round of the Major League Baseball draft on Monday. He’s the first known observant Orthodox player to be picked the league’s draft. MLB.com ranked the 17-year-old as the 121st best major league prospect, so he was picked…
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News Israeli surfer Anat Lelior’s unlikely path to the Tokyo Olympics
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. Anat Lelior’s first experience with surfing came at age 5. It was an inauspicious start to the sport that would become her career and, later this month, take her to the Tokyo Olympics. Her father, Yochai, lay on the back of the board with her at their…
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News Looking to follow Team Israel at the Olympics? This duo has you covered.
David Wiseman and Shari Wright-Pilo were at the 2019 Tel Aviv Grand Prix when Israeli judoka Or Sasson won the gold medal. As the press section swarmed him with cameras and rapid-fire questions in Hebrew, Wright-Pilo was recording on her phone and decided to try something. She asked the judoka, “Ori, can we have a…
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Fast Forward England’s Chelsea soccer club joins Anti-Defamation League in partnership to fight bigotry
(JTA) — The famed London-based Chelsea Football Club and the Anti-Defamation League have joined in a partnership to combat bigotry. For the next three years, Chelsea’s foundation will fund the expansion of the ADL’s Center on Extremism — which feeds information on extremist activity to law enforcement — and the ADL’s work with a British…
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News Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch
(JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though they’re happening in 2021. The Jewish athletes competing this year — and there are many — are the products of inspiring journeys. There’s the fencer looking for redemption, Israel’s…
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News For some American Jewish athletes, Team Israel is a ticket to the Olympics
For some Jewish American athletes, competing for Israel made their Olympic dreams possible. But in addition to the opportunity to be an Olympian, many of these American competitors report a particular and powerful pride in representing the nation. Their journey to the Olympics, they say, has connected them more closely to their heritage. “Your good,…
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News After years of injuries, Jon Moscot set to pitch for Team Israel at Tokyo Olympics
Jon Moscot discovered baseball fairly easily. Growing up in Southern California meant stickball games with brothers Josh and Jed in the park before eventually upgrading to baseball. Their father, Elliot, passed down a love for the game that he developed while idolizing Sandy Koufax and the Brooklyn Dodgers. This summer, the 29-year-old Moscot will fulfill…
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News This Orthodox sports writer can’t write on Shabbat — so she covers the NFL
(JTA) — As NFL beat writers go, Jori Epstein is likely among the more unique: Start with being a woman, she doesn’t work on Shabbat and she has penned a Holocaust survivor’s biography. The Dallas resident, who attended Jewish day schools and camps, is only 26, too. Epstein, who attended Jewish day schools and camps,…
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