TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Steve Tisch, the Academy Award-winning producer and executive Vice President and Chairman of the New York Giants, chaired the 16th Tel Aviv Student Film Festival last week. Held at Tel Aviv University, it is the largest student film festival in the world, and widely acknowledged as the most influential. This year, […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
NEW YORK (WJC)–The Latin American branch of the World Jewish Congress is urging the international soccer governing body FIFA to keep one minute’s silence in honor of the victims of the AMIA terrorist attack before the match between Argentina and Iran at the World Cup in Brazil. In a letter sent to FIFA President Joseph
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Thomas Wheeler, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and John McCain (R-Arizona ) on Wednesday, June 4, pressed the agency to eliminate its sports blackout rule in 60 days. The comment period on the proposed regulations to eliminate the FCC’s sports blackout
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) placed a friendly wager with his colleague U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California), over the 2014 Stanley Cup Final between the Rangers and the Kings, set to start the evening of June 4. Schumer wagered a case of Brooklyn Lager beer and soft pretzels from a
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Starting Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) will join thousands of cyclists and volunteer “roadies” who will embark on a 545-mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles – the AIDS/LifeCycle – to raise awareness and funding for the fight to end HIV/AIDS. This annual journey raises millions of dollars to support the San
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Sports & Competitions, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Brad Ausmus was a catcher for the San Diego Padres from 1993 to 1996, and after a full career on other teams served from 2010 to 2013 as a Padres special assistant for baeball operations. He is now managing the Detroit Tigers with slugger Ian Kinsler one of his star teammates.
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San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsMADRID (WJC)–Jewish associations in Spain have filed an official complaint after nearly 18,000 anti-Semitic messages were posted on Facebook and Twitter in response to Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv’s victory over Real Madrid last weekend. Twelve Jewish groups in the autonomous region of Catalonia lodged the legal complaint over the messages, which flooded onto
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International, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)—a lifelong Vikings fan, and a supporter of Minnesota’s bid to host the 2018 Super Bowl—made the following statement after it was announced on Tuesday, May 20, that the state’s bid was successful: “Minnesota’s winning bid to host the 2018 Super Bowl is exciting news, not only for
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Sports & Competitions, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)–U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, joined by City Councilman Jumaane Williams, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and other advocates, on Monday, May 19, urged the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission to reverse course on its decision and designate the home at 5224 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush, once occupied by Jackie Robinson, as
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)- For 10,000 Israeli basketball fans who filled the Mediolanum Forum Arena in Milan, Italy, as well as those who monitored broadcasts in Israel, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s win against Spain’s Real Madrid was a sweet victory. The championship game hit overtime with the final score 98-86, as Israel managed to cement a solid lead
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Sports & CompetitionsBy Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Some 20 years ago, 12-year-old Ted, on a trip to San Francisco, was taken into a restaurant in Chinatown. The boy saw the menu, and in a loud voice said: “Chinese food? I hate Chinese food. I don’t even like the Chinese!” Then he noticed all the Asians glaring at him. He
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Joe Gandelman, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Million Dollar Arm, a new Disney movie, stars Jon Hamm as J. B. Bernstein, a sports agent who figures if he can find some pitchers in India who can make it to the Big Leagues, Major League Baseball can start developing a fan base of some one billion
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Donald H. Harrison, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Chairman Fred Upton requesting that – in the wake of NBA owner Don Sterling’s ban for life for racist comments – the Committee hold a hearing to examine another instance of racial insensitivity in sports: the
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Sports & Competitions, USA
By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the fallout from the recording of racist comments by the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, Jewish organizations both local and national have moved quickly to take the focus off his ethnicity and remind the country of the Jewish involvement in the civil
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Sports & Competitions, USA