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This Jewish sports writer doesn’t work on Shabbat — so she covers the NFL

Jori Epstein, 26, who has written a book about a Holocaust survivor, is one of the industry’s more unique football beat writers.

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As Israeli swimmers took 4th place in an Olympic trial, a TV commentator criticized their country

The commentator for TV3, the state broadcaster where the competition took place, spoke only about the swimmers’ country, not their technique or performance.

Duxbury High School football players

Boston-area high school football team had long history of antisemitic behavior, report finds

The Duxbury team had been using words like “Auschwitz” and “rabbi” for plays dating back to 2010, according to the investigation. Their former coach said some of the terms had been started by Jewish players.

Russian-Israeli tennis player Aslan Karatsev reaches French Open mixed doubles final

Jon Scheyer

Jon Scheyer, a Jewish star player at Duke who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, will replace legendary Mike Krzyzewski as Duke coach

Football student forced to eat pork

Hebrew Israelite football student in Ohio forced to eat to pork as punishment for missing practice

Mark Cuban

NBA teams take social media stands against antisemitism

NFL’s San Francisco 49ers pick a Jew of color to lead their diversity efforts

Noa Lang

Belgian soccer star defends chanting he’d ‘rather die than be a Jew’

Tomer Hemed celebrates a goal with a kippah.

Israeli soccer star Tomer Hemed celebrates goals with Israeli flag and kippah ‘for peace’

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