Boston Red Sox hire Sabbath-observant Chaim Bloom as head of baseball operations Bloom attended Solomon Schechter and Akiba Academy Jewish day schools while growing up in Philadelphia.
Yankees and Red Sox meet in rare midweek day game due to Yom Kippur The game was scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday in order to avoid conflicting with Judaism’s holiest day.
Curt Schilling compares Muslims to Nazis and gets suspended from ESPN The former All-Star pitcher posted a tweet that cited some provocative statistics about modern Muslims.