Tag: Athletes
New York Boulders ‘Jewish Heritage Day’ draws hundreds of baseball fans
The New York Boulders defeated the Evansville Otters 7-5 in an independent Frontier League baseball game on July 30 at Clover Stadium in Rockland County, N.Y. It was a double win for Boulders left-fielder David Vinsky,...
![A plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters commemorates the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The inscription, in German and Hebrew, reads: “The team of the State of Israel lived in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August to 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Memorial-to-Israeli-Athletes-Munich-Olympics-1972-Massacre-880x495-1-324x235.jpg "Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas?")
Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas?
The German government has created a commission of historians to study the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Germany’s Interior Minister has promised that the review will be...
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...
Suddenly, San Diego finds itself at hub of Jewish Community Center universe
It’s relatively rare for the top lay leader of a Jewish organization with national or continental reach to be based on the West Coast, let alone in San Diego. That makes the leadership trajectory...
World-class ATP 250 tennis tournament returns to Israel after 26 years
In welcome news for Israel’s sports and tennis fans, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) announced its new tournament in the ATP 250 category: The Tel Aviv Watergen Open 2022 will take place in...
Maccabiah and Israel: A sporting event of ‘a Jewish nature’
Bringing more than 10,000 Jewish athletes from 80 countries to compete in 42 sporting events all around Israel for the Maccabiah games is an impressive feat. Returning these athletes to their home countries as...
Israel has noteworthy top-15 overall finish at the World Games
Despite a final two days of podium near misses by Israeli athletes competing in acrobatic gymnastics and wakeboarding at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, the leader of the Israeli delegation was “speechless” at how well...
World Games week in review: Israel wins four golds, one silver
On the first day of the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Team Israel took a group photo at the city’s iconic statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge.
Miniature statues of Vulcan are being presented...
Birmingham honors Abraham Accords with ‘peace tree’ during World Games
The 2022 World Games in Birmingham have been promoted with the slogan of “witness history” in a city that has come together after being a flashpoint of the seemingly intractable civil rights struggle in the early...
World Games: Activist waves Palestinian flag next to Israelis during Opening Ceremony
As Israel’s delegation marched into the 2022 World Games opening ceremony on July 7 in Birmingham, Ala., there was an unexpected intrusion as an activist who was a volunteer for the games was able to get...