The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer
A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
Swimming
The Latest
-
Fast Forward -
Sports Israeli swimmer Ami Dadaon wins Paralympic bronze, his 4th Paris medal and Israel’s 10th
Israeli Ariel Malyar finished seventh in the 50-meter freestyle event.
-
Sports American Jewish teen Claire Weinstein wins silver medal in 4×200-meter freestyle relay
Weinstein, 17, won her medal alongside U.S. Olympic legend Katie Ledecky
-
Sports Mark Spitz made Olympic history in 1972. Here’s why his Jewish identity mattered in Munich
He won 7 gold medals for swimming. A day after his final race, the Munich massacre unfolded
-
First Person What I learned about swimming — and life — from an Israeli who survived the Munich massacre
Avraham Melamed, now 78, looks back on what happened in the Olympic Village 50 years ago
-
News No gender-segregated swimming at nature reserves, Israel’s deputy AG says
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority has no right to allow separate-sex swimming at its nature reserves, according to a legal opinion drafted recently by Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber. The authority had instituted separate swimming hours at the Enot Tsukim reserve on the northern Dead Sea in what it described as a pilot project….
-
Fast Forward Orthodox Jews Protest Women-Only Pond Allowing Trans Swimmers
(JTA) — A women’s-only pond in North London will now be open to transgender swimmers, which will prevent Orthodox Jews from using the pond. A group of haredi Orthodox women are planning to fight the decision, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Under Jewish law, women cannot be dressed immodestly in front of men. Trans women…
-
Fast Forward Men-Only Swimming Hours At Majority-Orthodox Condo Pool Is Illegal, Court Rules
(JTA) — A federal appeals court has ruled that separate swimming hours at a condominium complex in Lakewood, New Jersey is illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a decision on Monday said that the separate swimming hours in the outdoor pool of the A Country Place over-55 community were a…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
- 2
Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
- 3
News Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled crown prince, has a plan for his people’s future — if they’ll have him
- 4
Culture How an Amish Mennonite school in Arkansas went viral with a song by an Orthodox Jew
In Case You Missed It
-
News Ronnie Eldridge was one of NYC’s toughest political minds
-
Fast Forward A suspect in the 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires’ AMIA Jewish center now leads Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
-
Fast Forward Jewish groups ask Pentagon to stop Messianic chaplains from wearing Jewish insignia
-
Fast Forward Lev Parnas, Jewish Trump ally turned critic, running for Congress as a Democrat
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
