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Among the Jewish athletes to win medals in Tokyo are, left to right, Avishag Semberg, Team Israel Judo, Jessica Fox, and Artem Dolgopyat. (Getty Images)
August 16, 2021, 3:30 pm
A fairly comprehensive list of Diaspora Jews at the Tokyo Olympics
By Nate Bloom
Alex Bregman makes a play in Game 7 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on November 1, 2017. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
March 29, 2018, 11:40 am
Alex Bregman is baseball’s next Jewish star
By Hillel Kuttler
March 6, 2017, 9:56 pm
The incredible Israeli baseball victory in the World Baseball Classic
Israel has upset victory over South Korea. Watch the full game
A view of Yankee Stadium on Sept. 11, 2016. (Christopher Pasatieri/Getty Images)
September 26, 2016, 4:33 pm
Yankee Stadium kippah-grabbing incident has Orthodox fan ‘scared’
By JTA Staff
Team Israel celebrates after defeating Great Britain in the qualifying tournament championship game in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 25, 2016. (Hillel Kuttler)
September 26, 2016, 4:25 pm
Israel advances to World Baseball Classic for first time
By Hillel Kutler
September 22, 2016, 3:31 pm
‘On the Map’
Documentary to be screened at Schechter school shows miracle basketball team; panel includes a player
By Joanne Palmer
Nate Freiman is at bat for the Portland Sea Dogs in a game against the Harrisburg Senators in Pennsylvania in May. (Hillel Kuttler)
July 7, 2016, 11:46 am
Jewish ex-major leaguer trying to get back to baseball’s big show
By Hillel Kuttler
LeBron James, center, and Dan Gilbert, left, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who is Jewish, celebrate the Cavaliers’ NBA championship last week. (Cleveland Jewish News)
June 30, 2016, 1:46 pm
2 decades before Cleveland’s first NBA title, LeBron James walked onto a JCC court
By Bob Jacob and Ed Wittenberg
March 8, 2016, 6:32 pm
WATCH: Meet Israel’s world-champion female Judoka
Yarden Gerbi has taken home the gold and plans to do so again
David Blatt, the former coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, reacting to a call in a game against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, Calif., on December 25, 2015. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
January 28, 2016, 12:46 pm
Firing of Cavs’ Blatt puzzles Israelis
By Hillel Kuttler
Gavriela Colton (Courtesy YU)
December 5, 2015, 6:00 pm
YU volleyball player chosen for PanAm Maccabi games
Aly Raisman competes in the floor exercise at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)
November 27, 2015, 1:56 pm
Aly Raisman has her eyes on Rio
By Dvora Meyers
September 3, 2015, 2:39 pm
Curt Shilling compares Muslims to Nazis, gets suspended from ESPN
By Gabe Friedman
Sunni Herman beams after Sunday's West Point triathlon.
August 20, 2015, 2:58 pm
‘I’m Sun. Let’s dance.’
Teaneck triathlete tells the story of how she finished the West Point race
By Sunni Herman
The opening ceremonies of the 1935 Maccabiah Games. (Courtesy Joseph Yekutieli Maccabi Archive)
August 13, 2015, 10:58 am
Sports-minded Jewish journalist surveys ‘underreported’ Maccabiah Games
By Jacob Kamaras
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