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Sports

In a first, NBA game features 3 Israelis — Deni Avdija, Danny Wolf and Ben Saraf

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — BROOKLYN — The Barclays Center had the energy of a bar mitzvah party on Monday night, as kippah-clad basketball fans and kids waving posters with Hebrew words of encouragement came to cheer on an NBA...

YU loses in Sweet 16, as Zevi Samet puts up 43 points in his last game with the Maccabees

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — The Yeshiva University Maccabees ended their NCAA championship run on Friday with a Sweet 16 loss to the Emory University Eagles.

The 101-80 loss to a higher-seeded team came amid the “electric atmosphere” that fans...

Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes’ overtime goal propels US to historic gold medal in Olympic hockey

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal Sunday to clinch a gold medal for the U.S. men’s hockey team, its first since 1980.

The New Jersey Devils star center, who had scored twice...

Spike Lee, Kyrie Irving wear pro-Palestinian outfits to NBA All-Star Game featuring first Israeli player

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Deni Avdija scored five points and made four assists and one dunk in his first NBA All-Star Game — the first All-Star appearance ever for an Israeli player.

But while Avdija’s Team World squad fell...

Israel’s bobsled team is chasing more than medals in its first Olympic outing in Milan

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — No matter what happens when Israel’s bobsled team hits the ice next week at the 2026 Winter Olympics, team captain Adam “AJ” Edelman has already had a year for the history books.

The 34-year-old Brookline,...

Harrison Bader, Dean Kremer headline as Team Israel announces its World Baseball Classic lineup

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — A pitcher for the Minnesota Twins whose father-in-law is an Israeli-American pharmaceutical executive and political activist is one of the new additions to Team Israel ahead of next month’s World Baseball Classic.

With sixth edition...

16 Jewish and Israeli athletes to watch in the 2026 Winter Olympics, from the ice rink to the alpine slopes

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — All eyes might be on Israel’s unlikely bobsled squad, making its first appearance at the Winter Olympics, but there are actually a slew of Jewish and Israeli athletes headed to Milan.

The 2026 Milano Cortina...

Alex Bregman, who drew a Jewish star on his cap after Oct. 7, inks $175M deal with the Cubs

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — For the second year in a row, Jewish star third baseman Alex Bregman has signed a lucrative free-agent contract with a team that is run by a Jewish executive and plays in a historic ballpark...

Argentine tennis star Diego Schwartzman now plays soccer for a Jewish club in Buenos Aires

By JUAN MELAMED

(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES — Former top-10 tennis player Diego Schwartzman, once ranked among the world’s best, is now playing soccer for one of Buenos Aires’ Jewish sports clubs.

Schwartzman’s sporting life has long been tied to...

Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer.

By SCOTT BARANCIK

(JTA) — For the first time in decades, a long forgotten major league baseball player has been posthumously identified as Jewish.

Monte Pfeiffer, who played a single game for the Philadelphia Athletics some 112 years ago, had...