SubscribeIt isn’t just the Koufaxes and Greenbergs
Avram Grant to skip YK game. Or not.
Where’s Wilson when you need him?
From the JTA: Security tight as Israeli volleyballers fall in Turkey JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel lost to Turkey in the Euroleague women’s volleyball bronze medal game in an empty arena amid tight security. More than 2,000 Turkish police guarded the Israeli team at the tournament, held over the weekend in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Turkey defeated [...]
Israel, the Arabs, and the World Cup
Courtesy of the New York Jewish Week. It’s always about the politics.
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.”
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to
That’s not cricket. Oh, wait, it IS.
That’s what you get for trying to be Mr. Nice Guy
“How many times do we have to tell you, Mohammad-Manour Azimzadeh: The Israelis are not our friends.”
More “best”
The decade’s best in Israeli sports.
Omri Casspi, NBA draftee!!
In the word of that eminent sports philosopher Marv Alpert, “Yesssssssssssss!” Casspi was chosen by the Sacremento Kings as the 23rd overall pick in the first round last night to become the first Israeli-born player in the NBA. Unfortunately, this news got short shrift because the Kings also had the #4 pick and chose a [...]
