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Israel's flag football team. Credit: American Football in Israel.

After a tumultuous year, Israel set to host world flag football championship

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The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) has selected Israel to host the Flag Football World Championships at the Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem from Dec. 6-8, 2021. The three-day tournament is expected...
Zach Banner, offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Source: Twitter/Zach Banner.

Steelers ‘mensch’ Zach Banner to donate part of gameday check to Tree of Life

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Pittsburgh Steeler Zach Banner announced Monday that he was donating a portion of a game-day check to Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue, the site of the mass shooting in October 2018. “I’m crashing Hanukkah this...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Visiting Auschwitz is not the answer

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American Jews are making a mistake. When Philadelphia Eagles football player DeSean Jackson made blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, Jewish Patriots player Julian Edelman invited him to visit Auschwitz. In fact, Jackson has accepted an invitation from Edward Mosberg, a...
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish groups, community weigh in on Eagles player’s apology for anti-Semitic posts

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The fallout from anti-Semitic social-media posts by Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson has prompted Jewish organizations not only to weigh in on the matter, but to apply pressure on the Eagles team itself. Earlier this week,...
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson during a 2008 game against the Washington Redskins. Credit: Mr. Shultz via Wikimedia Commons.

How much anti-Semitism does it take to cancel an NFL star?

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Imagine if a professional football player used his Instagram account to support the Ku Klux Klan and to promote hateful myths attributing horrible crimes to African-Americans. What would happen? It doesn’t require any imagination at...
A scene from Proctor & Gamble's interactive Super Bowl LIV ad powered by technology derived from an Israeli startup, February 2020. Source: Screenshot.

Israeli startup helps create first-ever interactive ad for Super Bowl LIV

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The Israeli startup Eko has teamed up with the consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble to develop the first interactive commercial co-created by consumers that will air during Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, reported The Jerusalem...
Israeli children participate in a American Football game as part of the “Young Champions” program founded by Erez Lustig, an Israeli nonprofit that today brings together 200 girls and boys, ages 6 to 16, on four teams that practice after school. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Young Champions’ brings American football to Israel, teaching discipline and teamwork

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Born and raised in a country that adores soccer over most other sports, Israeli educator and sports coach Erez Lustig fell in love with American football from a young age. His improbable love for...
Two teams in Israel lining up. Credit: Erel Taly.

Israelis get inside the huddle, embrace the strategy and tactics of American football

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Many Israelis came to work bleary-eyed on Monday morning, having stayed up all night watching the New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. While the low-scoring affair certainly wasn’t...
Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman wore these cleats on Dec. 16, 2018 to remember the 11 Jewish victims of the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit: Julian Edelman/Twitter.

Edelman cleats in memory of Pittsburgh shooting victims sell for $10,000

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Specialized cleats worn by New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman in remembrance of the 11 people killed in the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh have been...
Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman wore these cleats on Dec. 16, 2018 to remember the 11 Jewish victims of the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit: Julian Edelman/Twitter.

New England Patriots pay respect to Tree of Life synagogue victims

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Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, visited the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday to pay his respects to the 11 victims of the deadliest shooting in American Jewish...