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What Hank Greenberg’s friendship with Jackie Robinson can teach us today

An on-field exchange in 1947 shows how we must change our hearts, put our arms around people and uplift each other. It is, one might say, first base.

By Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove July 14, 2020 11:34 am

Jewish NFL players say education, not ‘cancellation,’ is the right response to DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic posts

“At the end of the day, if he was educated and he knew the history, he probably wouldn’t say those things,” Josh Miller, a 50-year-old retired punter, said of Jackson.

July 13, 2020 2:06 pm

Now on DeSean Jackson’s post-pandemic schedule: Visiting Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor

The Philadelphia Eagles’ wide receiver accepted an invitation to visit the death camp during a Zoom conversation with Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg.

July 12, 2020 8:33 am

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What Hank Greenberg’s friendship with Jackie Robinson can teach us today

Jewish NFL players say education, not ‘cancellation,’ is the right response to DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic posts

Now on DeSean Jackson’s post-pandemic schedule: Visiting Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor

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