Thank you to our friends at Abbanibi who discovered this gem — a short report about the Omri Casspi Basketball Clinic in Cleveland, where the Israeli hoopster teaches local kids some hoop fundamentals. In the video, Casspi talks about his path from Maccabi Tel Aviv to the NBA, and about his experience reuniting with Anthony Parker… More ▸
Kenyan runner Sammy Tu won the Tel Aviv Marathon in a record time. More ▸
Six 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 ▸
Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits won the Women’s RS:X competition ISAF Sailing World Championships in Spain. More ▸
While 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 ▸
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 ▸
Jake 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 ▸
After 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 ▸
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 ▸
Last 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 ▸
