July 7, 2006

A century after he was a standout major league baseball catcher, Johnny Kling has been bypassed by the national pastime. When the Veterans Committee of baseball’s Hall of Fame made its last choices for long-retired players, in 2001, Kling did not make the cut. When Jewish Major Leaguers issued its initial set of Jewish baseball […]

This past week, while Israel prayed for a kidnapped Israeli corporal and Israeli soldiers struck at Gaza, a future Israeli soldier was buried in Jerusalem. Eliyahu Asheri, an 18-year-old from the West Bank settlement of Itamar, was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists and murdered immediately. On Thursday, he was laid to rest on the Mount of […]