NEW: Jet Fans' Dilemma: Pigskin or Shul
Steve Lipman Staff Writer The New York Jets home season will start off poorly this year for some Jewish fans. And at least one of them insists that the Jets knew about a scheduling conflict with the...
View ArticleJewish Jocks, From A To Z
Steve Lipman Staff Writer The Super Bowl, this Sunday’s National Football League championship game, isn’t the only notable sports event to take place on a Feb. 3 — there was also the 26 points scored...
View ArticleTackling A New Field
Steve Lipman Staff Writer The social hall of the Queens Jewish Center, an Orthodox congregation in Forest Hills, will be filled with football fans watching the Super Bowl Sunday evening. But only one...
View ArticleFor Giants Fans, Sense Of Relief
by Sharon Udasin Staff Writer A lifelong football fan — of both the European and American variety — Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield was relieved to learn last week that he could keep on going to...
View ArticleThe Jewish Right To Mourn Our Own
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 There have been some critics of The Jewish Week editorial on Mumbai. Here’s one from Larry Yudelson: read more
View ArticleThe Winter Olympics Sap-0-Meter
Slate is running an ongoing Winter Olympics Sap-O-Meter, awarding one Sap Point for every time an NBC commentator uses any one of the following 35 words: adversity, battled, cancer, challenges,...
View ArticleJewish Athletes Inducted To L.I. Hall Of Fame
(JTA) – Wrestler Bill Goldberg and Olympic swimmer Jason Lezak were among seven inductees into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.The five others inducted Sunday at the center in Commack, N.Y.,...
View ArticleProud To Be On The Jewish Team
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Natl. Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inducts seven new athletes.‘I have never been more proud to be Jewish than right now.”With those words, Bill Goldberg, the NFL football player...
View ArticleBob Dylan fan-site bans Israelis, Brad Pitt to shave beard and Jamie-Lynn...
-Unofficial Bob Dylan Web site decides to ban Israelis from logging on-Soon, Brad Pitt will no longer resemble a Chabad rabbi -- as he plans for his monumental shaveread more
View ArticleIsraeli Jazzman’s Southern Swing
Steve Lipman Staff Writer From Houston to Hattiesburg, saxophonist Amir Gwirtzman’s four-month tour in the American South was ‘highlight of my career.’Growing up along the shores of the Mediterranean,...
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