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News 79 Years After Nazi Olympics, Jewish Athletes Flood Berlin for Maccabi Games
Melissa Perlman has participated in countless running competitions, but none were as emotional as the half marathon race in Berlin last Sunday. “To come to Germany 70 years after the Holocaust and represent Jews and take a stand for something so much bigger than ourselves was an opportunity I could not turn down,” said the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Rugby Team Grabs Argentina Championship
An Argentinian rugby team with a Jewish history and many Jewish fans won the national league championship. The Buenos Aires-based Hindu Club team won the Argentinean national title after beating Club Newman in a vibrant 27-25 final. Identified as the Jewish rugby team among the national clubs, Hindu fans display Israeli flags during some matches….
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Opinion What If Football’s Opening Weekend Acknowledged Rosh Hashanah?
Much has been made of the start date of the 2015 NFL season, which falls on Erev Rosh Hashanah. But the truth is that football always starts around the Jewish New Year in September. What if Jewish football fans pushed to integrate Rosh Hashanah into the opening game broadcasts? After all, football has been played…
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Fast Forward World Soccer Chief Pushes Back Against Suspending Israel
The president of FIFA reiterated that Israel will not be suspended from international soccer’s governing body. Sepp Blatter made his remarks in a meeting Wednesday with the heads of Israel’s soccer association at FIFA headquarters in Zurich. According to a FIFA news release, Blatter “reiterated his position that any member association that is fulfilling its…
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Fast Forward Israel Scrambles To Avoid Suspension From World Soccer
Israel’s top soccer administrators will meet FIFA President Sepp Blatter in Zurich on Wednesday in a late bid to avert a vote called by the Palestinians to suspend Israel from the world body. An official from Israel’s FA told Reuters that chairman Ofer Eini and chief executive Rotem Kamer would urge Blatter to use his…
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Fast Forward Ali Marpet Makes Splash as Tampa Bay Buccaneers Take Jewish Lineman in Second Round
(JTA) — When Alexander “Ali” Marpet and Jake Fuerst went on a camel ride during a Birthright trip to Israel last summer, the animal brayed loudly in displeasure at the 467 pounds of young men perched on its back. Most of the camel’s agony could be blamed on the 6-foot-4, 307-pound Marpet, who was overseas on…
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Culture A Personal History of Sports and Anti-Semitism
I thought about sports and anti-Semitism after reading about an extraordinarily ugly incident at a recent Dutch soccer game. And I realized that in my 44-year career at The New York Times, covering about 8,000 events, I personally witnessed only two such moments. And I wrote about only one other. I never was the object…
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Fast Forward Pro Football Season Starts — on Rosh Hashanah
(JTA) — On Rosh Hashanah, according to the liturgy, our fate is written in the Book of Life. But Jewish football fans may be spending the holiday thinking about something else: the NFL opening games they are missing. The 2015 NFL schedule was released on Tuesday, and the season kickoff is on Sept. 13, which is…
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