Tag: Sports
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...
This year’s Maccabiah Games are going live …
Broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games is a massive operation, with more than 7,000 personnel covering 28 sports utilizing 1,000-plus cameras, taking the games global.
For the first time, the so-called Jewish Olympics will be broadcast around the...
Into the deep end: American-Israeli swimmer dives into Maccabiah history
Swimming has always been at the center of Michele Kupfer’s life. She swam as a child growing up in Florida, she swam during her childhood summers in Israel, and she had the amazing fortune...
Owner of New York Giants unhappy with football game on Rosh Hashanah
New York Giants co-owner John Mara said he’s “not happy” that the National Football League has scheduled his team’s only “Monday Night Football” game of the 2022 season on Sept. 26, the second night of...
Tel Aviv University’s sports center named after Israeli-Canadian philanthropist Sylvan Adams
Tel Aviv University named a new sports center after Canadian-Israeli businessman and philanthropist Sylvan Adams in a special ceremony on Wednesday. The new center will include an Olympic-size swimming pool and optimal training conditions,...
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....