More than 240 basketball players competed in a basketball tournament at the Dallas Jewish Community Center to raise money for young Israeli victims of terror. The third annual three-on-three tournament, organized by a high school group, Students Against Terrorism, chooses a different charity to play for each year, the Texas Jewish Post reported. More ▸
Baseball’s top Jewish player was traded. The Los Angeles Dodgers dealt slugger Shawn Green to the Arizona Diamondbacks early this week. Green made headlines last year when he sat out a game on Yom Kippur. More ▸
Bemoaning the way Israel is portrayed in the news is something of a favorite pastime for many American Jews. But rather than complain that Israel is depicted unfairly in its conflict with the Palestinians, two Silicon Valley executives are taking a different approach. Eric Benhamou, chairman of 3Com, and Zvi Alon, founder of Netvision, wanted… More ▸
Harry Danning, who was the oldest living Jewish major league baseball player, died Monday in Indiana at 93. Danning was an All-Star catcher for the New York Giants in the 1930s. More ▸
A Jewish baseball player who has a Star of David tattooed on one leg and the post-Holocaust motto “Never Again” on the other will play next year in Japan. Gabe Kapler, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox team that won the 2004 World Series, inked a one-year deal to play next season for the… More ▸
An exhibit on Jews in baseball is up at the Center for Jewish History in New York. “Pioneers, Superstars and Journeymen: American Jewish Baseball Players, 1871-2004″ is based on the best-selling set of trading cards produced and marketed by the American Jewish Historical Society. More ▸
A Jewish baseball player hit a home run on Yom Kippur eve, then sat out the next day in observance of the holiday. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shawn Green hit his blast in his team’s victory last Friday night over the San Francisco Giants. He then sat out the Saturday afternoon game against the Giants,… More ▸
Most casual baseball fans know about the “Curse of the Bambino.” Now a sportswriter has written that the curse — which links the Boston Red Sox’s failure to win a World Series since 1918 to the sale of slugger Babe Ruth the following year to the New York Yankees — has anti-Semitic origins. The publication… More ▸
Ask American Jews to name an American Jewish hero and they might say Steven Spielberg or Sandy Koufax. Perhaps you’d get Sarah Jessica Parker — her mother’s Jewish — or even Madonna, the Catholic superstar who has helped to make Kabbalah mainstream. But ask an American Jew to name a Jewish communal leader, and you… More ▸
It started with a grim parade of names and ended with a song of hope. A reading of names of victims of terrorism in Israel drew about 700 people to New York’s Baruch College on Sunday, the day before the launch of the Republican convention. The event was sponsored by The Israel Project, a group… More ▸
