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‘Bring Them Home Tour’ in Israel Features Yeshiva University’s Maccabees Men’s Basketball Team

Last month, Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team, the YU Maccabees, joined with Athletes For Israel on a weeklong solidarity trip to Israel. For the...

Amid Challenges, Israeli Basketball Team Plays with a Sense of Purpose

When the Israeli professional basketball team Maccabi Ra’anana learned about the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, they had just arrived in the United...

You Should know… Akira Morgenstern

Akira Morgenstern comes from a long line of tennis players. His father and grandfather both played and were a vital part of getting him...

Jewish basketball star Abby Meyers selected in 1st round of WNBA draft

Jacob Gurvis Abby Meyers, a Maccabiah Games gold medalist and former University of Maryland basketball star, was selected 11th overall by the Dallas Wings in...

Jewish star guard Abby Meyers leads University of Maryland into top-10 spot in the...

By Jacob Gurvis | JTA Last July, Abby Meyers helped lead Team USA to a gold medal in women’s basketball at the Maccabiah Games, or...

How a kibbutznik became a coach for the Cincinnati Reds

By Elli Wohlgelernter | J TA KIBBUTZ GEZER, Israel — Bill James, the influential baseball writer, historian and statistician, once described the great Yankees first...

Silver Spring runner uses his ‘secret weapon’ to win the 2022 Atlanta Marathon

Shlomo Fishman’s brain was telling him that he could stop. Not even halfway through the Atlanta Marathon on Feb. 27, the Silver Spring resident’s...

A first for the Berman Cougars: The middle school boys basketball team claws out...

The small gymnasium at Berman Hebrew Academy overflowed with fans to watch the Cougars middle school boys basketball team win their first Potomac Valley...

Billiards legend JoAnn Mason Parker is plotting a comeback

By Gabe Stutman For JoAnn Mason Parker, playing pool comes just as naturally as handling a knife and fork. “You’re not going to drop it, because...

Israel-Bethesda Friendship Game was the next best thing to the Olympics

The Israeli Baseball Team will make its Olympic debut on July 22 against South Korea. But last Sunday, the Israelis were in Rockville, playing...