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Top Reform bodies renew call for Redskins to change name, logo

The Religious Action Center and the Central Conference of American Rabbis call the name a “slur” and “inappropriate.”

Dolph Schayes, Jewish basketball star, dies at 87

According to a 2014 article, Schayes was “arguably, to professional basketball, what Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg were to baseball.”

Yuri Foreman, ex-boxing champ and now ordained rabbi, scores victory in return to ring

Foreman, 35, in his first bout in two years, defeated Lenwood Dozier by unanimous decision.

Aly Raisman: 5 things to know about the once (and future?) Olympian

Jewish gymnast Aly Raisman has her eye on Rio 2016

For love of the game, Justine Siegal has risen to be MLB’s first woman coach

Along with Jewish vendors, another Cubs legacy at risk: Losing

Is Mets pitcher Steven Matz Jewish?

The Mets-Dodgers series is so Jewish, congressmen are betting bagels on it

For Jewish boxer ‘The White Tiger,’ toughness is a birthright

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