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New items on Abel Kiviat, Nancy Lieberman, and Avram Grant.
Lest we forget: Lou Bender
College basketball star Lou Bender dies at 99.
The greatest Jewish athlete ever?
Was handballer Paul Haber the greatest Jewish athlete in history?
Lest we forget: Donald Roth
I’m going to get personal for a moment.
Remembering the Israeli 11 in ‘12
According to this entry on i spy strangers, a blog that follows the doings of Great Britain’s Parliament,
A member of the House of Lords has said he is delighted that the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics will be remembered at the Games in London in 2012.
Book Review: Red and Me
Former NBA star and U.S. Senator Bill Bradley write this review on Bill Russell’s new biography of legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach.
The latest on the Schoeneweis tragedy
All that animosity about Scott Schoeneweis giving up the home run that cost the Mets a chance at the post-season last year? Out the window.
As Diamondbacks’ manager A.J. Hinch said, horrors like this put sports in perspective.
Lest we forget: Boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting dies
From the JTA:
JERUSALEM — Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting fellow prisoners, has died.
Arouch died in a nursing home in Israel on April 26. He was 86.
Arouch served as a consultant on the 1989 film “Triumph of the Spirit” about his win-or-die fights staged by the Nazis. It was the first [...]
Tribute to a Phillies Phan
Inside Magazine, the quarterly publication of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, published this touching tribute to Michael Levin, a devoted Phillies’ fan who made aliya, servied in the IDF, and was killed during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
His gravesite in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl Military Cemetery has become a shrine of sorts to his [...]
And a yasher koach to the ‘Semitic Seven’
The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame held its 2009 induction ceremony yesterday. Among the honorees (though not necessarily in attendance) were ESPN’s Linda Cohn; NFL trainer Ed Block; former New England Patriot Andre Tippett; writer Dick Schaap (posthumously); Olympic weightlifter Gary Gubner’ Olympic swimmer Dara Torres; and Marvin Miller, the trailblazing former executive director [...]
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