NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday urged the international governing body for basketball to reverse its decision prohibiting an orthodox Jewish athlete from wearing a T-shirt under her jersey during an upcoming tournament. To abide with Jewish rules of modesty for women, Israeli national team player Naama Shafir normally wears a [...]
HAIFA (Press Release) – The Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team of the Israeli Basketball Super League, announced on Thursday that the team will host a special preseason basketball clinic and scrimmage on Saturday, September 4 at the Nesher Sports Hall in Nesher, Israel, headlined by current NBA All-Star Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic. Maccabi [...]
HAIFA (Press Release)– The Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team of the Israeli Basketball Super League, announced on Friday, July 23, they have signed guard Frank Robinson, who played at Cal State Fullerton from 2004-08, to a one-year contract. Robinson, 26, played three years at Cal State Fullerton, averaging 15.8 points, 6.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and [...]
Related story by Norman Greene By Joey Seymour SAN DIEGO — What was just a bunch of “junk in the garage” according to Bob Breitbard’s wife, Lillie, turned into the vast collection of San Diego sports memorabilia, which is housed today in the sixty thousand square foot Hall of Champions Museum in Balboa Park. Bob [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian * Heritage listing possible for first Victorian shul MELBOURNE, 13 May – Heritage Victoria is campaigning to protect the site of Melbourne’s first synagogue from any unsympathetic development. The building, now known as Equity Chambers and since 1930 the home to legal offices, was the original location of Melbourne Hebrew [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian Harmony Day – A Celebration SYDNEY, 26 March – A Holocaust survivor’s memoir about life in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and then in Australia, Lolli’s Apple, was launched as part of Harmony Day celebrations at the Art Gallery of NSW on Sunday. Tomas Fleischmann said the book took him eight months to [...]
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Press Release) – NETS Basketball will host Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Super League, Israel’s top division, in a 2010 preseason game on Sunday, October 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. The game will mark the first preseason game the NETS will play at the [...]
