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News Comic book-loving Ivy League grad runs 93 miles a week and is long shot Olympic hopeful
Jordan Gershon Mann is an Ivy League Olympic hopeful, has an MBA and likes to dress up as anime characters for comic book conventions. The 28-year-old Rhode Island resident will be competing in the Olympic track and field steeplechase trials in hope of joining Team USA on June 21 and 24 in Eugene, Ore. He…
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Fast Forward Boston-area high school football team had long history of antisemitic behavior, report finds
(JTA) — (Jewish Journal-Massachusetts via JTA) — A suburban Boston high school football team that had come under fire earlier this year for using Holocaust and Jewish phrases to call plays – “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “yarmulke” among them – had been employing similar antisemitic language for at least the last decade. That was the conclusion…
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News Overachieving Jewish med student to compete at the Summer Olympics
Andrea Murez is likely the only Olympic swimmer competing in Tokyo this summer who is also halfway through medical school. Murez, universally known as Andi, is 29 years old, nearly 6’1” and grew up in Venice, California. She made aliyah in 2014 and for the second time will be competing in the pool as part…
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News When their season was cancelled by COVID, these college athletes found faith off the field
Like many Jewish college athletes, Kylie Hall had a lot of time on her hands when the COVID pandemic struck in March, 2020. The soccer player at Emory University saw games and practices cancelled. Into that void entered a campus rabbi who recruited athletes to an online educational program as a way to pass the…
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Fast Forward Hebrew Israelite football student in Ohio forced to eat pork as punishment for missing practice
(JTA) — A high school football coach in Ohio and seven of his staff have been suspended for punishing a Hebrew Israelite student-athlete by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza in violation of his religious commitment to keep a kosher diet, according to a report from Cleveland 19 News. The 17-year-old student at McKinley…
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Fast Forward Jewish motorcyclist embarks on ‘Great American Deli Schlep’
As many Americans settle back into the workweek, one motorcyclist is going a step further to burn off long weekend celebrations: Tuesday marks the start of Steve Goode’s “Great American Deli Schlep” around the country. Goode is partnering with the Jewish national advocacy group MAZON to raise money and awareness for the fight against hunger…
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News Israeli Olympic triathlete has family and country riding on his shoulders
It is not easy being an Israeli athlete like Shachar Sagiv, training to compete in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics while his country is engulfed in violence. “I see what’s going on in my country right now and it’s really, really hard for me,” Shachar said. “At the same time, it gives me the power and…
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News Israeli equestrienne hopes to make Olympic history, with unmistakable flair
Danielle Goldstein Waldman attracts attention wherever she goes, even when she isn’t riding the horse on which she hopes to compete in the 2020 Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo this summer. The thousands of colored feathers the championship-winning show jumper wears woven into her hair have earned her the social media hashtag #FlyingFeathers…
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