(Statistics through July 4) Ian Kinsler became the fifth Jewish player to achieve 200 Major League home runs. Photo by Keith Allison /Flickr Detroit Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler became the fifth Jewish player to hit 200 home runs. The momentous shot came in Sunday’s 5-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. Hank Greenberg tops […]
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Sports & Competitions(Statistics through June 27) Five-year-old Ashtin Gerberg, aka, “Mini Thor,” became perhaps the youngest person to throw out a ceremonial first pitch when he took the mound before the game between the NY Mets and the Kansas City Royals on June 22 at Citi Field in Queens. Ashtin, a pint-size doppelganger of Mets star pitcher
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Sports & CompetitionsCHICAGO — A report late Tuesday that Donald Trump is lining up Mike Ditka to make a star appearance at the Republican National Convention came as no surprise to anybody — except Da Coach himself. While Ditka, 76, has made no secret of his support for presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and Trump has in the
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Sports & Competitions, USA(Statistics through June 20) Dean Kremer became the first Israeli citizen to sign with a Major League team. Dean Kremer, a right-handed pitcher, became the first Israeli to sign a contract with a Major League Baseball team when the Los Angeles Dodgers signed the 20-year-old Israeli American on June 14 after drafting him earlier this
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Sports & Competitions, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Why did Israeli sports journalist Sharon Davidovitch say “LeBron James is now the most hated person in Israel. It’s a little bit joking and a little bit true: These days I can only compare the Israeli hate for LeBron James to the hate for Hamas.” A. He wrote this in
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Sports & Competitions, Trivia, Humor & SatireA boxer from Syria bowed out of a qualifying round for the Olympics because he would have had to face off against an Israeli contender, Haaretz reported Sunday. The Syrian boxer, Ala Ghasoun, had been scheduled to vie against Israel’s Artium Musley. Since Ghasoun refused the match, Musley will be automatically moved to the next
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBritish soccer icon David Beckham revealed that he considers himself to be Jewish because of his grandfather. During a discussion at the London Jewish Cultural Center, the 41-year-old made it clear that Judaism had been a part of his life. “My grandfather was Jewish, that was on my mother’s side, so yes, I do see
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International, Sports & CompetitionsLOS ANGELES, June 10, 2016 – Muhammad Ali’s public funeral was turned into a public spectacle today, as an interfaith event meant to show the peaceful side of Islam turned into an excuse to bash Israel. A supposedly apolitical event meant to unify us all became a Democrat Party pep rally. Not since Paul Wellstone’s
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAOmri Casspi Israeli basketball champion Omri Casspi, now a forward for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, is leading a drive to raise $200,000 for charitable organizations in his homeland. Casspi said his campaign is part of a wider mission to show the best of Israel to the world. The organizations selected are Yad Ezra, which feeds
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAWhen three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away last Friday, media outlets were swamped with eulogies for the 74-year-old former boxer, highlighting his cultural impact at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Indeed, Ali”s legacy goes far beyond the ring. His conversion to Islam in 1964 marked his metamorphosis from
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Jewish History, Sports & Competitions
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Josh Stein, Assistant General Manager of the San Diego Padres, will be guest speaker at the June 15 Dinner Forum sponsored by the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Israel. He will provide firsthand information about the general state of the team as well as about the many changes to the game taking
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-58th in a series- Exit 30, Tavern Road, Alpine, California: Dream Rider Equestrian Therapy By Donald H. Harrison ALPINE, California – A head-on automobile collision near her home in this mountain community alongside Interstate 8 put Catherine Hand into a wheel chair and ended her first career as a set and costume designer for
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food(Statistics through May 23) Eric Nystrom Photo courtesy media.nhl.com Top of the week: The Nashville Predators are set to part ways with their oft-injured left-wing Eric Nystrom. Nystrom, 33, appeared in just 46 games for the Predators this season. He scored seven goals with no assists. The son of NY Islanders favorite Bobby Nystrom, Eric
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) – Guardians of San Diego will host its 25th Annual Golf & Tennis Tournament “Take a Swing for Seniors” presented by The William Gumpert Foundation on Monday, July 25th at the Del Mar Country Club with Devin Chodorow serving as Chair. 25th Anniversary Benefactors, Merrill and Robert Haimsohn are supporting the tournament
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