Israeli sports

What price glory?

What price glory?

Welcome to Jersey, Omri Casspi

Omri Casspi and the Kings take on the NJ Nets on Jewish Family Night.

A tennis lesson for the world

Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Leonard A. Cole appears courtesy JTA.
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The news out of Dubai has been rife with speculation about who assassinated Hamas terrorist commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a local hotel.  Israeli agents and al-Mabhouh’s Palestinian rivals are high on the guess list.
But amid the who-did-it debate, a [...]

“This space for rent.”

Jewps and a haircut, two bits.

Jewish Olympics, eh?

(It’s all right, I’m part Canadian; I can make fun.)
Canada Israel — “Celebrating all that is similar and unique about our two amazing countries” — ran this wrap-up on the Israeli participants in the just-completed games.

Heavy lifting?

Ha’aretz ran this story about the Israeli husband-and-wife weightlifters, Marina Ohman and Anatoliy Mushyk, hopefuls for the next Olympic games.

Hands across the (metaphorical) water for Israeli-Dubai

According to this item on Ynet, “The Dubai-based International Cricket Council has awarded the Israel Cricket Association with a prize for a cross-border initiative bringing together Jews and Bedouins in the southern Negev desert.”

Israeli ice dancers, take two (and a half)

We all love validation in our opinions.

Mazel tov, Zaretskys!

Israeli ice-dancing team finishes 10th. Not bad for a country who’s only experience with ice comes in a glass.

Let’s give ‘em something to talk about

Israeli Olympians: Skating on thin ice?