Kenyan wins Tel Aviv Marathon
Kenyan runner Sammy Tu won the Tel Aviv Marathon in a record time. More ▸
Sports
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Six Jerusalem soccer team’s fans get the boot from future games
By Marcy OsterSix of the 16 Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans detained by Jerusalem police for assaulting Arabs at a city shopping mall were banned from attending games. More ▸
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Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits captures world title
By Marcy OsterIsraeli windsurfer Lee Korzits won the Women’s RS:X competition ISAF Sailing World Championships in Spain. More ▸
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Shaq speaks Hebrew to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
By Uri FintzyWhile the most buzzed Daily Show topic this week has been Samantha Bee’s hilarious piece about the Park Slope Food Co-Op‘s vote on whether to boycott Israeli products (watch it, it’s great), not many people noticed that just 24 hours earlier former NBA all-star and now TNT analyst Shaquille O’Neal stopped by and showed off… More ▸
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Talkin’ baseball: Jewish Major Leaguers and why we care about them
With baseball’s Opening Day nearing, why we care about Jews who played in the Major Leagues from the author of a book on the subject. More ▸
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Pa.’s Jake Cohen nets 24, but Davidson falls to Louisville
By Marc BrodskyJake Cohen, a junior forward from Berwyn, Pa., had 24 points and 10 rebounds, but Davidson College lost in the opening round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. More ▸
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Beren comes up short in tourney, but stands firm on larger principles
By Uri FintzyAfter capturing national attention for its struggle to compete in a Texas tournament, a Jewish high school team learns that some things are more important than basketball. More ▸
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Jesse Eisenberg Lin-vents more mythology
Jesse Eisenberg goes all “Chuck Norris” facts on newly-knighted Knicks legend Jeremy Lin: Bullies chased me through the gym hurling rocks and insults when a young Taiwanese-American boy stepped in between me and my attackers. It was little Jeremy Lin, who was four years younger but in my class because he skipped several years of… More ▸
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Amar’e gets teardrop tattoo in memory of his brother
By Uri FintzyLast week we reported that Amar’e Stoudemire’s older brother Hazell was killed in a car crash in Florida. Amar’e was in Florida with his family, and his absence was one of the main reasons for the current Linsanity phenomenon, Jeremy Lin’s incredible rise as an NBA superstar. Amar’e kept his Twitter pretty quiet about the… More ▸
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Birthday haiku for Mark Spitz
**** Besides the mustache swam faster by pretending mother was chasing **** Happy birthday, Mark Spitz. More ▸
