TEL AVIV (Press Release) –In a briefing on the immediate and growing impact of the crisis in Israel on the children and families of the Israel Tennis Centers in southern Israel, the region hardest hit by the rockets that continue to rain down, officials said on Friday, July 11, that all 14 tennis centers are […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release) – Maccabi World Union (MWU), the governing body of the worldwide Maccabi Movement, has appointed Philadelphia native Robert Spivak as its Honorary President. In this position, Spivak will be the senior public Ambassador and Statesman for internal affairs for the Movement. This position is mandated by the MWU Constitution and can
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Sports & Competitions
Editor’s Note: Want to learn more about the Jewish players mentioned in the story below? Have your mouse hover over the name of the player and a link will appear. SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Are you interested in how Jewish baseball players are doing in the majors and the minors? The website Jewish Baseball News
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions
By Sheryl DeVore SOUTH BEND, Indiana — When Andrew Berlin purchased a losing baseball team with the goal of improving park attendance and scores, he didn’t realize that he would also be repurposing a century-old synagogue that could have easily succumbed to the wrecking ball. The CEO of Berlin Packaging, a Chicago-based business with
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL Israel Airlines is the official airline of the Israel Lacrosse Association, which is expanding efforts to introduce the sport to Israeli communities throughout the country. In coordination with Taglit-Birthright, more than 40 lacrosse players from all over the USA took the initiative and collected more than 2,000 pounds of lightly
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World‘s movie reviewer and humor columnist, Lawrence Baron, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University, will deliver three summer lectures on Jewish movies at Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capril Drive, with the first coming at 7 p.m. tonight (Saturday, June 21), and the others scheduled on
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions
By Bob Jacob/Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Cavaliers looked near and far during a five-week stretch for a head coach and they finally found their man – in Israel. David Blatt, who coached Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague and Israeli league basketball championships this year, struck a deal to become the
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Sports & Competitions
By David Ogul SAN DIEGO –Mr. Padre is gone. The greatest hitter of our time and the most celebrated San Diego State Aztec ever is dead at 54. Tony Gwynn’s passing on Monday, June 16, from cancer caused by years of chewing smokeless tobacco has caused this city, this county, this region, to reflect on
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David Ogul, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, during a Senate hearing, urged Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to commit to speeding up the border crossing process between Canada and Buffalo on Buffalo Bills game days. Specifically, Schumer urged Johnson to consider adding more border patrol agents on the Peace Bridge during Buffalo Bills game
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–A Palestinian soccer player who met with a Hamas terrorist in Qatar this year was arrested by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). Sameh Fares Mohammad, 22, from Kalkilya, had travelled to Qatar for a soccer training camp in April, when he secretly met with a Hamas terrorist that had been freed
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Steve Tisch, the Academy Award-winning producer and executive Vice President and Chairman of the New York Giants, chaired the 16th Tel Aviv Student Film Festival last week. Held at Tel Aviv University, it is the largest student film festival in the world, and widely acknowledged as the most influential. This year,
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
NEW YORK (WJC)–The Latin American branch of the World Jewish Congress is urging the international soccer governing body FIFA to keep one minute’s silence in honor of the victims of the AMIA terrorist attack before the match between Argentina and Iran at the World Cup in Brazil. In a letter sent to FIFA President Joseph
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Thomas Wheeler, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and John McCain (R-Arizona ) on Wednesday, June 4, pressed the agency to eliminate its sports blackout rule in 60 days. The comment period on the proposed regulations to eliminate the FCC’s sports blackout
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) placed a friendly wager with his colleague U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California), over the 2014 Stanley Cup Final between the Rangers and the Kings, set to start the evening of June 4. Schumer wagered a case of Brooklyn Lager beer and soft pretzels from a
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Sports & Competitions, USA