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EST 1917

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When one thinks of a competitive powerlifter, a pretty standard image comes to mind: an enormous man in tights bulging with muscle. Not quite a petite Orthodox girl too young to have her own Facebook page. But that was Naomi Kutin — a now-15-year-old yeshiva student who broke world records at the age of 9. […]

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When Michael Phelps dives into a pool in Rio to grab his golds, he’s guaranteed calm waters hovering round 80 degrees Fahrenheit. But at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, a Hungarian Jew named Alfred Hajos-Guttmann was diving into the Mediterranean, which was about 55 degrees and choppy, thrashing him about in up […]

The Olympics are supposed to be a time when the world unites to celebrate elite athletes, but it has long been a complicated event for Jews. The Munich massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972 is a permanent stain on the games, and that’s not all. It turns out that the Olympic torch relay, a symbol […]

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