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Life Shabbat-observant youth soccer club forms in honor of Miami teen’s death
Sholem Benchimol was a talented soccer player with aspirations of one day becoming a professional. But although he trained diligently with a soccer club after school, when game day arrived he usually couldn’t play — because most youth soccer games take place on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. Sholem, born into an Orthodox Jewish…
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Fast Forward In A First, An Israeli Will Race In The Tour De France, World’s Premier Cycling Event
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time, an Israeli will compete in the Tour de France, the world’s premier cycling event. Guy Niv, 26, is a member of Team Israel Start-Up Nation, the first Israel-based and -owned team to race in the Tour de France. The team, which was established in 2015 as the Israel…
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Fast Forward Decorated Orthodox runner, Olympic hopeful, hires attorney in bid to move marathon from Saturday
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Beatie Deutsch, a Sabbath-observing mother of five and aspiring Olympic marathoner in Israel, has hired an attorney to ensure that she can run in the race next year. The marathon at the Tokyo games, which were postponed from this summer because of the coronavirus, is set for a Saturday in August 2021….
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Fast Forward Angela Buxton, Jewish tennis star who won Wimbledon doubles title, dies at 85
(JTA) — Angela Buxton, won the women’s doubles championship at Wimbledon in 1956 but was denied admission to the All England Club, which hosts the prestigious tennis tournament, has passed away. Buxton, who also reached the singles finals at Wimbledon in ’56, died Monday, a day before her 86th birthday. The club traditionally gives a…
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Fast Forward Former Major Leaguer Cody Decker: Anti-Semitism ‘rampant’ in pro baseball
(JTA) – Former pro baseball player Cody Decker said that anti-Semitism is “rampant throughout baseball” and that an Oakland Athletics coach should be suspended for making a Nazi salute after a game. Decker, who played briefly for the San Diego Padres and for Israel’s national team in the World Baseball Classic, spoke candidly on the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s hockey captain signs to play in Oswiecim, aka Auschwitz
(JTA) — When the captain of Israel’s ice hockey team takes the ice for the coming season, he will be just a short walk from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp where Nazis murdered nearly 1 million Jews during the Holocaust. Eliezer Sherbatov, 28, signed last week to the local team in Oswiecim, the Polish name…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U men’s basketball team wins conference championship, qualifies for NCAA Tournament
(JTA) — Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team won the Skyline Conference championship game on Sunday to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament for the second time in three seasons. The top-seeded Maccabees defeated third-seeded Purchase College, State University of New York, 86-74, at home in the title game to run its…
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Fast Forward Teenage Orthodox pingpong phenom may have to skip Olympics because trials are on Shabbat
(JTA) — An 18-year-old pingpong star may have to skip this year’s Olympics because the U.S. trials are scheduled for Shabbat and she is an Orthodox Jew. While many Orthodox Jews will informally play sports on Shabbat, they generally do not take part in organized competition. Estee Ackerman, who won the women’s division at the…
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