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Israeli athletes mark a successful day on Sunday, as gymnasts win multiple bronze and silver medals in the 2015 European Games in Baku.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
All you need is a few days vacation and a few thousand dollars to show the Israeli flag at the big game.
Jellyfish warning flags are now going to be standard.
An unknown American Jewish millionaire has made an offer to buy the debt-ridden Beitar Jerusalem Soccer club, the One sports website reported Sunday. Jerusalem Major Nir Barkat has been searching for a buyer because the club's owner Eli Tabib is not committed to retaining ownership. Tabib, who recently was lightly wounded outside his posh home […]
Only in America: Non-Jewish jockey visits the Rebbe's grave before racing to a win the Triple Crown on the horse owned by an Orthodox Jew from Egypt.
After he dropped the FIFA ball, now he wants to make a bigger fool out of himself.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Hundreds of competitors including an Israeli national team made up of both Chinese and Israelis, paddled their way to the finish line.
FIFA's Palestinian Authority soccer chief dropped the ball on his own head.
At the last minute before the proposal was to go to vote, Rajoub submitted an amendment that would cancel the bid to suspend Israel.
Zurich police have confirmed there was a bomb threat to blow up the FIFA congress, but they have since allowed the annual convention to continue following a search.
They stopped Blatter from speaking, waved PA flags and demanded "Israel out."
A former of official of the same FIFA, which is considering expelling Israel, blamed "Zionism" for a bribe charge in 2011.
The Hareidi politicians agreed to not protest the country club after the mayor agreed to move it. So much for agreements.
Shurat HaDin calls for expulsion of PA soccer chief Rajoub for inciting terror - hours before Swiss arrests of FIFA officials for various charges of corruption.
If anyone should be kicked out of FIFA, it is the Palestinian Authority.
By Kosher Today
Could it be that one of America’s largest Jewish communities and kosher markets does not offer kosher fare at its premier ballpark? Apparently so, say fans who voiced their complaints with the Jewish Journal. Second only to New York, Los Angeles is estimated to have more than 600,000 Jews, yet no kosher food at Dodger […]
German Soccer fans were told to stop waving their Israeli flags.
By Shalom Bear
The "Palestinians" have a long history of targeting Israeli athletes.
Rosen, a former Cleveland Indians slugger, was a proud Jew. He died Friday at age 91.
Girls, ages 10-13, from Efrat in Gush Etzion will square off against girls from the Galilee Arab village Sakhnin tonight in a playoff game that will determine which group will advance to the semi-finals in the girls' league. "We are involved with soccer and not politics," one of the Efrat girls said. "We really want […]
This isn't the first assassination attempt against him.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The unique desert landscape that covers large parts of Israel allow for its positioning as a leading destination for cyclists, with a comfortable climate year-round and spectacular desert scenery.
Officials are not making any conclusions except to rule out that the tunnel is not a drug lab.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s a safe bet to say that the overwhelming number of American football fans in Israel cheered on the Patriots.
Is Israel in deep trouble for rooting against the Seahawks?
Many families enjoy watching the Super Bowl together, but the halftime show makes them uncomfortable. This is a family friendly entertainment venue that can be enjoyed by everyone.
Super Bowl viewers will have to get along with Scarlett Johansson this year.
It's only 35.6 degrees (F) outside, but that won't stop the runners. The Tiberias Marathon is currently underway this cold Friday morning.
By JTA
Gal Mekel, the second Israeli to play in the NBA, has signed with the New Orleans Pelicans. Mekel played for the Pelicans on Saturday in a 120-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, a day after his signing was announced. He missed his four shots and went scoreless, but the 6-3 point guard handed out […]
By JTA
The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.
The Olympic Committee and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympiad have selected Israeli security company ISDS to provide security for the event with a $2.2 billion budget, Israel Defense reported. ISDS will be responsible for consultation and supply services to protect the Olympics, the world’s largest sporting event. "We already have teams operating in Brazil, […]
By JTA
The official exchange rate is one dollar per point.
By JTA
Anti-Israel thug proves once again how not to achieve co-existence.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
3000 years ago, King David probably never imagined cars racing at 240 kilometers per hour through the ancient capital of the Jewish people.
By JTA
A seniors’ tennis team from New York is going to a court of law to keep from playing a tournament on Shabbat.
“Jewish teams’ are more proud to win than proud to be Jewish.
Qatar's horror of legitimizing Israel's existence extends to even listing its name for TV sports purposes.
Trump made his offer after the President was turned away from multiple golf courses.
Every time Palestinian Authority’s former security force chief Jibril Rajoub opens his mouth, he reveals the immorality of the PA.
By JTA
Love game. Israel is left with holding the racquet out of bounds..
Morocco’s national soccer federation stepped in at the last minute last week to protect innocent young Moroccans from the unbridled humiliation and degradation of playing against Israeli children. On May 27, Moroccan authorities announced they would pull two teams, made up of 11-year-olds and 13-year-olds, from the Kawkab Athletic Club Marrakech out of the Mondial […]
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fame, has won the bid to buy the LA Clippers, for $2 billion dollars.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
For 10,000 Israeli fans that filled the Mediolanum Forum Arena in Milan, Italy, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s win against Spain’s Real Madrid was a sweet victory.
By JTA
An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this […]
Used car chain CarMax, KIA, energy drink producer AQUAhydrate, auto title company LoanMart and State Farm are cancelling or suspending their sponsorship of the LA Clippers following the reported racist rant by the team’s Jewish owner, Donald Sterling. “CarMax finds the statements attributed to the Clippers’ owner completely unacceptable,” the company said in a statement. […]
By JTA
Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director labeled as “reprehensible” the racist remarks attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and other Jewish groups chimed in with condemnation. “If the National Basketball Association’s investigation reveals that Mr. Sterling in fact made these racist and intolerant statements, we expect and anticipate […]
Just as sad as Sterling’s racist comments is that Jewish leaders tacitly accept his having a non-Jewish mistress.
By JTA
The Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour will play this year in Israel, the first time that Israel has hosted an ATP tournament since 1996, according to the organization. The tournament, offering $1 million in prize money, will take place at the Israel Tennis Center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon Sept. 15-21 […]
By JTA
Trans-Atlantic basketball is not so far-fetched. If it will make money for the NBA, it will happen.
By JTA
Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Israel Defense Forces to bar a Palestinian runner from Gaza from participating in a marathon in Bethlehem but nevertheless recommended that he be allowed to participate in the race. Olympian Nader Masri, 34, had asked Israel’s military for permission to travel to the second Bethlehem marathon that […]
The best weightlifters in the world will arrive for the championship, taking place in Tel Aviv April 5-12. The championship, will take place at a high school, and practices will take place in a see-through hall in the Tel Aviv Port. Both activities will be open to the public. This is the first time that the […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Meet Sarah, the 20 year old Kiryat Arba resident who won the Women's World Thai-Boxing Championship.
By JTA
The British Football Association will request that Nicolas Anelka serve his entire suspension for performing the quenelle salute regardless of the soccer team he joins. Anelka was fired by British West Bromwich Albion on Friday for “gross misconduct” for making the salute, seen by many as being anti-Semitic, on the field during a December match […]
Morashragas' victims may get a chance at revenge very soon.
By JTA
The European governing body of soccer, UEFA, announced the punishment on Tuesday against Omar Rahou, who made the gesture several times at a European Championship match of futsal, a variant of soccer, in January while celebrating scoring a goal for his team, Chatelineau, against Romania in Antwerp, the website of the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad daily […]
By JTA
Nicolas Anelka, a French soccer player for a British club, was fined $130,000 and suspended five games for performing the quenelle gesture in a game. The British Football Association handed down its penalties on Thursday following an investigation by an independent regulatory commission, which ruled that Anelka was guilty of performing an act that was […]
Camp HASC's annual Fort Lauderdale marathon is a crucial fundraising event for the special needs children camp based in upstate New York. However this year's event faced a unique challenge due to the massive blizzard that struck the area over the weekend. The entire team of 109 runners and staff members were on the verge […]
American Jew Charlie White is first American to win Olympic gold as part of an ice skating pair.
By JTA
Israeli short track speed skater Vladislav Bykanov failed to qualify for the 1,500-meter semifinals in the Winter Olympics by less than a second. Bykanov finished fourth on Monday in the second heat in 2:21.163 — 0.8 away from advancing — at the games in Sochi, Russia. He will compete in the 1,000-meter race on Thursday […]
Russia's Chief Rabbi and the Sochi Chabad led a welcoming event for the Israeli Olympic athletes.
By Ari Schwartz
On Sunday, just 3 days into the Sochi games, Jews have already won 3 medals.
By JTA
Israel will be sending five athletes to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, starting next month. Evgeni Krasnopolski, 25, a Ukraine native who grew up in Israel, will skate in the pairs competition with Andrea Davidovich, 16, of Vermont. The pair, who train in Hackensack, N.J., finished seventh in the senior pairs competition at the […]
The Nachum Segal Network drafts Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock to kick off its new game day tradition.
Knocking the holy Coca Cola and Pepsi earned SodaStream and Johansson publicity Fox News didn’t count on.
By JTA
Chile’s Palestine Football Club, after being fined for wearing uniforms on which the number one in players’ numbers in the backs of their shirts were represented by a map of Israel as Palestine, unveiled its new uniforms that now show exactly the same thing on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers […]
SodaStream is getting great free publicity from Boycott Israel and now Fox News, which rejected its Super Bowl ad.
The U.S. says canceling the Olympics an option; Canada warns athletes about the risks.
By JTA
The president of France’s main Jewish group has toned down his blanket condemnation of the quenelle gesture and said it is not necessarily anti-Semitic. Roger Cukierman of the CRIF umbrella group adjusted his position in a filmed interview published Tuesday on the website of the Le Figaro daily. Reacting to the decision that day by […]
Tamerlan Tsarnaev joined up with terrorists near the area of Islamists looking to disrupt the Olympics.
By JTA
Several Jewish organizations have criticized a Polish prosecutor’s decision not to try soccer fans who chanted about Jews and Auschwitz. A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office of Poznan in central Poland said last week that no charges would be brought against the fans because they did not mean to offend Jews when they chanted the […]
Will the BDS Movement boycott Scarlett Johansson because of her starring in SodaStream Super Bowl ads?
Nazi lovers and sports fans now have chance to add a Nazi-era soccer poster, complete with a swastika, to their collections. A Nazi-era poster of soccer game between Ireland and Germany, represented by a picture of a swastika, is going on sale at an auction in Dublin.The poster is expected to bring in up to […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not known for being gentle with those who oppose him. Putin's current opponent, Islamist mass terrorist Doku Umarov, is similarly steadfast.
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
By Tibbi Singer
Tony Parker did the “quenelle.”
The basketball exhibition of NBA stars, which Dennis Rodman is preparing for the birthday celebration of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, is "an undeserved gift to a murderous tyrant," Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.
By JTA
Pollack is basketball’s ultimate numbers and public relations man.
By JTA
An Israeli playing basketball at Seton Hall University was ordered to return home to serve in the army. The Israel Defense Forces told Tom Maayan, a sophomore guard at the New Jersey college, to return by Jan. 2 to be drafted. Maayan had spent several months over the summer in basic training with the Israeli […]
By JTA
A German soccer team withdrew from a sponsorship agreement with Saudi Arabia’s national airline because it refuses to ticket Israeli citizens. The FSV Frankfurt team abrogated the contract with Saudia this week after criticism leveled by Jewish groups and other organizations, according to the Associated Press. The airline’s director told The New York Post in […]
By Tibbi Singer
“I wore a yarmulke, and I was a target,” says ,” says Rabbi Sensei Gary Moskowitz, who is a Karate black belt.
By JTA
Detroit is bringing in the Jews. A couple of weeks after hiring Brad Ausmus as manager, the Tigers on Wednesday traded for Ian Kinsler, previously of the Texas Rangers, to play second base. The cost for the Jewish infielder, a three-time American League All-Star: mega-salaried first baseman Prince Fielder and a cool $30 million. Lucky […]
The Israeli-based SodaStream company will be back at the Super Bowl in February after its controversial commercial at the last game. The company, which has a factory in area of Maaleh Adumim east of Jerusalem, said it will launch its 2014 global advertising campaign with a $4 million worth of exposure on Super Sunday. "The […]
By JTA
Tunisia was suspended from next year’s Davis Cup after ordering one of its national team members to withdraw from a tournament rather than play an Israeli. The International Tennis Federation in a statement on Saturday said the Tunisian national team would be banned from the 2014 world competition for ordering Malek Jaziri not to compete […]
Soccer and anti-Semitism are two big sports in Britain. What happens when you combine them? You get a logo with a soccer team’s letter shaped in the form of a swastika. The team stated, “No offense intended.”
By JTA
Israeli windsurfer Shahar Zubari won a gold medal at the Sailing World Cup in China, finishing first in in the men’s RS:X on Saturday in Qingdao. Israeli Maayan Davidovich took the bronze medal in the women’s RS:X. In 2008, Zubari won the bronze in the RS:X at the Beijing Olympics and the world championships.
MK Moshe Feiglin sustained injures in a bicycle accident Sunday morning. Feiglin was out on his bike, riding on the Samaria lanes when he fell off in one of the dry riverbeds and sustained a strong blow to his shoulder. He managed to contact the local EMT and his town's four-wheel drive security vehicle rescued […]
America as a melting pot is the biggest threat to Jews, who want to be so politically correct that even the name “Redskins” draws the ADL to ruin the party just when Americans finally have a fun issue.
By JTA
An international tennis association is investigating a Tunisian tennis player for pulling out of a match instead of facing Israeli player Amir Weintraub in the quarterfinals of an Association of Tennis Professionals match in Tashkent. Jaziri gave a knee injury as the official reason for pulling out, and the Tunisian Sports and Youth Ministry told AFP that […]
By JTA
The newly elected president of the International Olympic Committee heads a German-based organization that helps companies to guarantee that their products do not contain anything from Israel. Thomas Bach, a German who was elected Tuesday at an IOC session in Buenos Aires, is chairman of Ghorfa, the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which was […]
By JTA
The Israel Tennis Association has been fined more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match against Belgium on Yom Kippur this year in the world group playoffs, the highest level of Davis Cup play. The Belgian Tennis Association turned down Israel’s request to postpone the game on Sept. 14. The International Tennis […]
By JTA
The Beitar Jerusalem soccer team announced that it will stop playing on Shabbat in order to allow its religious and traditional fans to attend team home games. Home games will be held on Saturday nights or weekdays, according to the announcement by the team’s new owner Eli Tabib. Beitar Jerusalem made headlines earlier this year […]
Israel has made another concession, without even being asked. The PA anthem was sung in Bethlehem for the Barcelona soccer team during its Peres-sponsored visit, but HaTikvah was ditched in Tel Aviv.
By JTA
An Egyptian player for a Swiss soccer team agreed to travel to Israel for a qualifying match after first refusing for political reasons. Mohamed Salah joined the Football Club Basel for its UEFA Champions League qualifying game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening. Salah, 21, reportedly changed his mind after meeting with team officials. […]
Dozens of soccer fans booked rooms Sunday night in Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel, where the FC Barcelona team was staying, to meet the players and then follow them to the Western Wall Monday morning as the team wrapped up their tour of Israel. The fans cheered them at the hotel desk and asked for autographs while […]
This is just what Israel does not need – another non-Jew claiming he is a Jew. NY Knicks star Stoudemire wants to be an Israeli but as for Torah, he likes to pick and choose his commandments,
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel lead the way with the final gold medal count, followed by the United States, Hungary, Canada, Azerbijan and South Africa.
By JTA
Argentina’s Jewish boxer Carolina Raquel Duer won the World Boxing Organization bantamweight title for the first time. Duer, popularly known as ”The Turk,” defeated countrywoman Mayra Alejandra Gomez by unanimous decision on Friday to take her second world title. The Jewish boxer raised her professional record to 15-3. Duer, 35, was the WBO’s super flyweight […]
American got over Katrina, the Clintons, Bush, and Superstorm Sandy. It even has survived Obama. But its golden age is over. Israel beat the US at its own game, the National Pastime, at the Maccabiah Games
Ryan Braun, whose father is from Israel, not only lost the chance to play out the reason of the season with the Milwaukee Brewers after he accepted his 65-day suspension for drug use, he also lost his image of the “good guy” who had convinced many that he was innocent of using performance drugs. "As […]
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