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Vegan Friendly is sponsoring Hapoel Tel Aviv for the 2022-23 season. Credit: Courtesy of Vegan Friendly.

Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan

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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...
PSG players celebrate with the trophy their win in the French Super Cup match against Nantes at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2022. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

PSG beats Nantes to win soccer Champions Trophy in Tel Aviv

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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...
Gary Jacobs (left) and David Wax, immediate past board chair and current board chair, respectively, of the JCC Association of North America, in front of the Lawrence Family JCC. Credit: San Diego Jewish World.

Suddenly, San Diego finds itself at hub of Jewish Community Center universe

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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...
Tennis ball. Credit: Pixabay.

World-class ATP 250 tennis tournament returns to Israel after 26 years

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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...
The Maccabiah serves as a way to show athletes and the world the State of Israel in all its glory. Credit: Konstantin Goldenberg/Shutterstock.

Maccabiah and Israel: A sporting event of ‘a Jewish nature’

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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...
Children in an Israel Life Saving Federation course learning how to rescue swimmers in distress. Photo by Jordan Polevoy.

Surf lifesaving competitions debut at Maccabiah Games

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Surf lifesaving competitions are being held for the first time at the Maccabiah Games in Israel this summer. Surf lifesaving combines swimming, lifesaving techniques and general fitness. The competitions involve running and then swimming or board-paddling to...
The “Leveling the Playing Field” sports-equipment donation program started in 2013 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Leveling the Playing Field’ does just that, spreading the sports wealth among others

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When Max Levitt was a student at Syracuse University, he had a unique window into the world of sports equipment. As equipment manager for the school’s football team, he regularly witnessed perfectly good cleats,...
Israel’s Nimrod Ryeder starts his journey toward gold, defeating Poland’s Robert Henek in jiu-jitsu at the World Games in Birmingham, Ala., on July 15, 2022. Photo by Larry Brook.

Israel has noteworthy top-15 overall finish at the World Games

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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...
Daria Atamanov (being held) celebrates her medals in rhythmic gymnastics. Photo by Larry Brook.

World Games week in review: Israel wins four golds, one silver

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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...
From left: World Games Birmingham Organizing Committee CEO Nick Sellars, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, Israel Deputy Consul General Alex Gandler, United Arab Emirates National Olympic Committee Acting General Secretary Azza Sulaiman, Moroccan Political Counselor Fatima Zahra Aboulfaraj and Bahrain Trade Representative Rose Sager receive proclamations at the dedication of the Abraham Accords tree site in Birmingham. Photo by Larry Brook.

Birmingham honors Abraham Accords with ‘peace tree’ during World Games

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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...