NEW YORK (JTA) — Watching Rebecca Yoshor in action for the Yeshiva University women’s basketball team, the skills are evident: the shotmaking, quickness, leadership and court smarts.
They are skills honed in what her father describes as...
Arnie Fielkow, the former City Councilman-at-large and executive for the New Orleans Saints organization, returns to his former home city on Wednesday, February 12 as a speaker for the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Israel Hot Topic lunch at 12 noon.
BALTIMORE (JTA) — Rabbi Daniel Alter expects some added fervency during daily prayer services at the Denver Academy of Torah in the days leading up to the Super Bowl.
Alter, the academy’s head of school, recalls that...
(JTA) — The major sponsor of the West Bromwich Albion British soccer team has canceled a $4.93 million deal with the team over an anti-Semitic gesture by one if its players.
Zoopla, which is co-owned by a Jewish businessman, Alex...
(JTA) — When West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka exposed British soccer fans to the vaguely Hitlerian salute now sweeping his native France, Jewish groups were confident a strong response was coming.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — A Dutch soccer team is facing criticism for playing in Abu Dhabi despite the emirate’s refusal to let in the team’s Israeli defender.
Two Dutch politicians and several media criticized the team Vitesse from Arnhem...
(JTA) – A star athlete from France is facing disciplinary action for showing support for an anti-Semitic comedian whose shows soon may be banned by the French government.
Britain’s Football Association said Saturday it was considering punishing Nicolas Anelka, a...
