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Jewish Olympian Jason Lezak surely has made his mark on U.S. Olympic swimming relay teams, notably with his unfathomable dash in the final 50 meters on Monday to lift the 4×100 men’s freestyle foursome to the gold medal in Beijing and a new world record. Now Lezak, at 32 the oldest male swimmer ever to […]

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Shahar Peer in action on Jan. 21, 2008, when she was part of a doubles team that advanced to the Australian Open quarterfinals. Israeli tennis stars Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich didn’t bring their Melbourne magic to Beijing. In fact, the Olympics have turned out to be a major disappointment on the courts for the […]

It took more than a week, but the Times today printed six responses to last week’s op-ed by Shmuel Herzfeld criticizing the responses of the major Orthodox groups and calling for a rabbinic investigation of the kosher producer Agriprocessors. Not surprisingly, opinion roughly divides between the rabbis and everyone else. The Orthodox Union and the […]

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