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When The Big Game is on The Big Day

This special holiday post comes from guest blogger Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, Executive Director of Hillel at Texas A&M University. Thank ...

Sports? I’m More a Fan of Random Jewish Discoveries

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. They had arranged a viewing of ...

Jewish Hoops History

For those of you with teams in the tournament, or whose brackets are still alive, enjoy the weekend.  I’ve been ...

Semitic Squads

Each of our 50 essays focuses on an individual figure. (The closest there is to an exception is Deborah Lipstadt‘s moving ...

Sports Is Like Hollywood: They’re Both Jewish!

In  Operation Shylock , Philip Roth wrote a passage that, had he not written it, we would have needed to ...

Coaches and Rabbis — A Post Olympic Reflection

I love watching the Olympics. This summer, I even watched reruns for a week after the games were over as ...

Tisha B’Av and the Olympic Games

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

A Nice Jewish Girl on the Balance Beam

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...