Israel’s marathon team wins gold in Munich 50 years after Olympics massacre
Israel’s national men’s marathon team won the gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, 50 years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympics in...
FIFA World Cup hospitality website continues to exclude Israel, lists ‘Palestine’ instead
The FIFA World Cup, which is set to take place in Qatar from Nov. 21 through Dec. 18, has a website that offers the public help in purchasing hospitality packages, but Israelis looking for their country...
Enes Freedom and Ryan Turell get called for traveling … to Los Angeles synagogue
Sinai Temple in Los Angeles recently explored the intersection of faith and sports.
The Conservative congregation hosted a community-wide event on Aug. 10 with two basketball players—one Jewish and one Muslim—taking part in a panel discussion...
Team Israel to Major League Baseball: Jake Fishman’s debut with the Miami Marlins
The Miami Marlins baseball team has a good sense of humor and loves a good fish story. When Jewish player Jake Fishman was called up to the majors from the triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp...
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan
In another first for the country with the highest number of vegans per capita, the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team will be called Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv for the upcoming season.
This is a slam...
World-class tennis coming back to Israel after 26 years
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced its new tournament in the ATP 250 category: The Tel Aviv Watergen Open 2022, featuring the world’s top-20 ranked male pro players.
More than 26 years after Israel...
The 1972 Munich Olympics slaughter from the other side of the street
A telephone call on the morning of Sept. 5, 1972 woke up three East German journalists who had been sent to cover the Munich Olympics. This was the first Olympic Games in which East...
On ‘journey through history,’ Auburn basketball players visit Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
As part of a trip to Israel to play basketball, the Auburn Tigers, a Division 1 NCAA college basketball team from Alabama, visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan greeted...
Auburn’s ‘Birthright for College Basketball’ initiative tips off in Jerusalem
Auburn University’s men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl is in Israel with his team for the inaugural “Birthright for College Basketball” tour from July 31 to Aug. 10. The reigning SEC regular-season champion Tigers will...
PSG beats Nantes to win soccer Champions Trophy in Tel Aviv
French champion Paris Saint-Germain defeated French Cup victor Nantes 4-0 to win the Champions Trophy on Sunday at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, where the match was played for the second consecutive year.
Midway through the first...