Tag: Sports
Israel’s women’s fencing team wins gold at junior world championship in Dubai
Israel’s national women’s fencing team took home the gold medal at the 2022 Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships, held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
In the junior women’s team épée, Israel won first...
Libyan fencing team withdraws from competition to avoid Israeli athletes
Libya’s national fencing team has pulled out of the World Fencing Championships in the United Arab Emirates to avoid facing Israeli opponents in the competition, reported Middle East Monitor.
The team was scheduled to go head-to-head...
Avdija scores better basketball season, though still strives for improvement on court
Deni Avdija’s second NBA season with the Washington Wizards, which concluded on Sunday with a 124-108 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, ended much better than his rookie NBA season when the Israeli forward sustained...
Meet Mia Raskin: A Shomer Shabbat college basketball player at Binghamton
For Mia Raskin, basketball and Judaism are essential parts of life. Her deep and simultaneous commitment to her favorite sport and religion never came into conflict; at least, until Raskin began considering her college...
Swimming with the tide: Athlete, actor, volunteer and Israeli supporter Mark Spitz
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games....
Jewish NFL player retires from Tampa Bay Buccaneers after seven seasons
Jewish Tampa Bay Buccaneers left guard Ali Marpet announced his retirement from the National Football League s in an Instagram post over the weekend.
“After seven formidable years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I’ve come to the...
Israeli woman becomes first Druze athlete to set national track record
Karawan Halabi, 27, on Tuesday became the first Druze athlete to set an Israeli track and field record, finishing the 1,000-meter race in 2:43:99 minutes.
The previous record belonged to Edna Lankri, whose time of...
It’s Super Bowl week, and Eli Lunzer is tackling a different side of sports
For Eli Lunzer, the road to Super Bowl Super LVI started weeks before the team match-ups were determined. Lunzer will arrive in Los Angeles for a nonstop week of work before the Cincinnati Bengals...
Inspired by COVID, basketball net designed by Tamir Goodman scores deals in industry
Former professional American-Israeli basketball player Tamir Goodman, known informally as “The Jewish Jordan,”’ has made leaps and bounds on the court as a player, coach and educator, and now, he has started a new...
Shifting gears: Ultra-Orthodox woman turns professional cyclist
Until just two years ago, now-professional cyclist Goldie Gelhar had not done any sports in her life. Born and raised in the haredi city of Bnei Brak, she took a single swimming lesson as a child,...