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Highs and lows for Jewish Major Leaguers in 2009

Highs and lows for Jewish Major Leaguers in 2009

Ryan Braun (Milwaukee Brewers) led the National League with 203 hits and was among the top 10 NL batters in runs scored (113), doubles (39), RBI (114), batting average (.320), slugging percentage (.551), and OPS (On-base + slugging, .937). Read More

Film on Israeli baseball league short of home run

Film on Israeli baseball league short of home run

For all the best intentions, hopes, and excitement, the Israel Baseball League lasted just one season. Tepid responses by the media and native-born population, poor playing conditions, and questionable business practices all led to the league’s downfall after its 2007 debut. Read More

Loneliness of a middle-distance Jewish runner

Loneliness of a middle-distance Jewish runner

Abel Kiviat is not exactly a household name, even in the small universe of elite Jewish athletes. Alan Katchen hopes to change that with his new biography on the Olympic medal winner. Read More

‘Jewish Jordan’ hangs up his basketball shoes

‘Jewish Jordan’ hangs up his basketball shoes

Tamir Goodman, the Orthodox basketball star who was dubbed “Jewish Jordan” by Sports Illustrated as a high schooler, has called it a career at the age of 27. Read More

A son recalls a Weequahic legend in new book

A son recalls a Weequahic legend in new book

When New Jersey-born Bob Masin, a resident of Portland, Ore., for the last 20 years, learned that a Weequahic High School alumnus lived nearby, he gave the gentleman a call. “I introduced myself and said, ‘By the way, did you know of my father, Swede Masin?’ And this guy is probably 30 years behind my father and he answered the same way everyone answers: ‘Of course I knew about your father; he was a legend.” Read More

Teaching the ‘sweet science’

Teaching the ‘sweet science’

When students return to Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston this fall, they’ll be greeted by a new, albeit unofficial, “professor.” Dmitriy Salita, the Orthodox junior welterweight boxer with a record of 30 wins, one tie, and no defeats, has created a program for the school that will teach the fundamentals of the sport as a way to engage the students — boys only at this point — in a new area of physical fitness. Read More

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