The Enduring Jewish Legacy at the Paralympics
As the 2024 Summer Olympics have drawn to a close, the spotlight has shifted onto the Paralympics, set to begin in Paris on August 28....
Sarah Levy Isn’t the First Jewish Rugby Player at the Olympics
The 2024 Olympic success of Sarah Levy brings renewed attention to the history of Jewish rugby players, from the early 1900s to today.
From the Archives | Home (Plate) for the Holidays?
When important baseball games fall on Shabbat or the High Holy Days, what’s a Jewish baseball player to do?
Opinion | You Were Finally a Mensch, Mr. Snyder
In the 1960s, Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan penned inspiring poetic lines, “There's a battle outside and it is ragin'/ It'll soon shake your windows...
Aviva Kempner on ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’
The Spy Behind Home Plate, the fascinating story of the 1920s-1930s baseball catcher Moe Berg, is the latest film by Aviva Kempner.
The Top 5 Books
We asked experts and aficionados to recommend their top five books on timely and intriguing subjects—from trends in American Judaism to Jewish romance.
The Year Israel Qualified for the World Cup
The Israeli national team has qualified for the tournament only once—the 1970 games held in Mexico.
Winter Olympics 2018: Tracking Israel’s Athletes
Updates on Israel’s progress in the Winter Olympics.
Politics, Propaganda and the Olympics Games
Politics and propaganda are inseparable from the Olympic spectacle—though perhaps never more patently than in Berlin in 1936.
Book Review // When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game
In Farewell to Sport, published in 1938, the popular New York Daily News sports columnist Paul Gallico, when departing the world of sports to write fiction (The Poseidon Adventure later became one of his best-sellers), reflected on the wide variety of sports and sports figures he had covered.
Going for Gold at the Jewish Olympics
Since 1932, the Maccabiah Games have drawn the finest Jewish athletes to participate in a wide array of events.
Play Hard, Pray Harder
By Gabriel Weinstein
Just two years after leaving the University of Florida facing charges of larceny and theft Auburn University quarterback Cameron Newton was full of...