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Croatian team celebrates World Cup success with performance by ‘fascist’ singer

The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a denunciation of a singer who has inspired sympathy for a pro-Nazi nationalist movement.

Alex Bregman wins baseball All-Star game MVP with tie-breaking home run

The Houston Astros' third baseman became the first Jewish player to win the award since it was instituted in 1962.

ESPN removes weekly Australian Football League pool participant for ‘Burnthejews’ screen name

SYDNEY (JTA) — International mega sports media company ESPN has removed a participant in its Australian Football League footy tips competition who had registered his screen name “Burnthejews” and has banned the person from reregistering. The sport is known in Australia as AFL but to its myriad of supporters across the country it is affectionately […]