Israeli Deni Avdija warms up as second season in NBA begins
By HOWARD BLAS (JNS) – Deni Avdija, the only Israeli player in the NBA, returned to action on Saturday night after
Local Colonie baseball pride and reflection on other baseball wins
By Rabbi MORDECHAI RUBIN Director of the Colonie Chabad Our local Colonie Little League team (12U) rolled through and won the New
U.S. Olympic Committee doctor Ariel Nassim wasn’t star-struck in Tokyo
By ALAN ZEITLIN (JNS) – As a captain point guard for his junior varsity basketball team at the Hebrew Academy of
Israeli-Arab swimmer wins gold at Tokyo Paralympics, makes history
By EMILY BURACK (JTA) – On the first day of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, swimmer Iyad Shalabi made history: He
Ezra Frech, Moran Samuel, Shraga Weinberg and others: 11 Jewish Paralympics athletes to watch
By EMILY BURACK NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Weeks after the Olympics came to a close, Tokyo is filled again with
Olympic gold proves that the sky’s the limit
By ARTEM DOLGOPYAT (JNS) – I learned two things watching rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram receive her gold medal on Saturday, Aug. 7. First, I
Team Israel’s Olympic baseball hopes end after loss to Dominican Republic
(JNS) – Team Israel baseball’s hopes of an Olympic medal ended on Tuesday, Aug. 3, after it lost a game in dramatic
A 76-year-old Jewish philanthropist from Los Angeles is one of the world’s most prolific Olympic pin traders
By STEPHEN SILVER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Sid Marantz loves tradition so much that he spent 20 years as a
Avishag Semberg takes bronze in Israel’s first-ever Olympic medal in taekwondo; first at the Tokyo games
(JNS) – Israeli athlete Avishag Semberg won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Saturday
Surfs up Israeli surfer Anat Lelior’s unlikely path to the Tokyo Olympics
By ANNA DIMOND This article originally appeared on ALMA. Anat Lelior’s first experience with surfing came at age 5. It was