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Jewish trivia quiz: Basketball tourneys

April 4, 2016

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — At the same time that colleges were competing in the NCAA basketball championship series, Hillel chapters from around the country were competing in the annual National Hillel Basketball Tournament, held at the University of Maryland. Yeshiva Unversity-Ammar (men’s competition) and Emory University (women’s competition) won this […]

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San Diego Jewish Academy grad now a Seattle Seahawk

March 25, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Free agent Drew Ferris, who was a long snapper at the University of Florida for three seasons, has been signed by the Seattle Seahawks to a three-year-contract. Ferris had been a high school graduate from San Diego Jewish Academy, and is the son of Walt and Pam Ferris.

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

When love is sought off the tennis court

February 25, 2016

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe used an innovative setting for the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match, which opened at Balboa Park’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theater February 18th. This superbly acted play centered on the US Open, but had little to do with tennis and everything to do with

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Eva Trieger, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish trivia quiz: Super Bowl 50

February 8, 2016

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — What role did the Israeli company Wix play in this year’s Super Bowl? A. Wix is the parent company of Sabra, which produces the hummus which has been the National Football League’s official dip since 2013. Sabra hummus was sold throughout Levi’s stadium, and was featured in an ad

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Whose race are you running?

February 7, 2016

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — My family owned shoe stores in Newark, New Jersey. when I was growing up. I worked in their stores from the time I was seven years old. One day, my grandfather brought me outside to teach me an important lesson. He pointed out the competitor down the

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Sports & Competitions

Broncos are this rabbi’s secular religion

February 4, 2016

By Rabbi Jeffrey Lipschultz ROCK ISLAND, Illinois –Thoughts this week fill my mind as we come to our new Parshah on Mishpatim that deals with the laws of the Torah and the command to adhere to all aspects of law, both small and large, to stand righteously with God. The laws are a sort of

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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USA

Pushing pedals, raising morale in Israel

November 24, 2015

By Steve Diamond SAN DIEGO — The email ad for the first annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Cycling Tour of Israel appeared in my inbox in early August – and immediately caught my eye. I’m a retired U.S. Navy senior officer, and my daughter, Rami, just finished her service as a Lone

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Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Book details the greatest gatherings of Jewish athletes

November 4, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sportswriter Ron Kaplan of Montclair, New Jersey, maintains a popular blog on Jews and sports so it was not surprising that he was approached by fans of the international Maccabiahs to write a book on the world’s greatest gathering of Jewish athletes. He was surprised, however, by the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Sports & Competitions

Counting the days until baseball’s spring training

November 2, 2015

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — The Kansas City Royals, those scrappy, come-from-behind non-imperials from the American epicenter of wheat and ice, ended it decisively in Game 6. Like a sudden gust from the plains, they brought it on at their own will, blowing the bemused New York Mets off their own field in a

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Sports & Competitions

The spy who worked at home plate

October 1, 2015

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — In 1934, the United States sent a team of baseball all-stars to Japan to play a series of exhibition games. On the team were the likes of baseball hall of famers, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Also on the team was Morris “Moe” Berg, a mediocre utility ball-player

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Never Again: Holocaust news of September 30, 2015

September 30, 2015

The Holocaust legacy that packs a punch By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Shot three times by the Nazis in Poland, Bernard Fleischer was down for the count. But just as he was about to be finished off, the German soldier’s gun froze. Assuming he’d die anyway, the soldier left Bernard in a barn. Bernard survived and later

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Jacob Kamaras, Sports & Competitions

I-8 Jewish Travel: A world champion’s tennis club

September 17, 2015

–23rd in a Series– Exit 9, Waring Road, San Diego ~ Lake Murray Tennis Club By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Soft-spoken, easy-going Saul Snyder is easy to underestimate. An opponent once told him, “you look like my accountant,” but that was before he faced Snyder across the tennis net, and lost. He learned, as many

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

Football bowl specialist addresses CBI Men

September 16, 2015

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel of San Diego hosts Mark Neville as its featured speaker at the October 21 Dinner Forum. Neville will provide an inside look at San Diego’s two season-ending College Football Bowl Games. He will discuss the pageantry and excitement the games bring to the

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San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Jewish Trivia: Darryl Dawkins, R.I.P.

August 31, 2015

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In 2011, NBA Superstar Darryl Dawkins, known as Chocolate Thunder, visited Crane Lake Camp, a sleepaway camp in western Massachutsetts run by the Union for Reform Judaism. What type of class did Dawkins, who passed away this week, run for the campers? A. He taught them how to

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