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Israel Comes from Behind to Win 3-1 in World Baseball Classic

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The go-ahead runs came in the eighth in a game that was supposed to be easier for Israel.

Israel / Sports

Team Israel Baseball Submits Expanded Roster for Tokyo Summer Olympics

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The list includes all 24 players who secured Israel’s spot by winning the WBSC Baseball Europe/Africa Olympic qualifier in September 2019.

Featured / Jewish / US / History / Arts and Entertainment / Asia / Sports

Baseball Hall of Fame Celebrates Jewish Big League Spy Moe Berg

By JNi.Media

Yankees and Mets legendary manager Casey Stengel said he was "the strangest man ever to play baseball."

Israel / Europe / Sports

Dutch Beat Israel 12-2 in Baseball Classic

By JNi.Media

The miracle ended on Monday night for the undefeated Israel team. It was finally stopped by the Netherlands, which Israel had beaten in round one.

Headline / Israel / Central America / Sports

Unbeaten Israel Clobbers Cuba 4-1 in World Baseball Classic

By JNi.Media

Israel's manager Jerry Weinstein took Marquis out after 69 pitches, which means he won't pitch again in the Tokyo round.

Rejuvenation with Eve Harow

Rejuvenation: Down in the Dirt: Fast Days and Fast Balls

By The Land of Israel

Play ball! Eve Harow interviews a variety of people beginning with Peter Kurz, who heads the IAB - Israel Association of Baseball . Listen to Major League Baseball players Jon Moscot, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Corey Baker, St. Louis Cardinals, and Josh Zeid, Houston Astros representing Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic in March in Korea.

IDF & Security / US / Global / News Briefs / Sports

10 Jewish-American Players Slated to Represent Israel in Baseball Tournament

By JNi.Media

This will mark the first time Jewish-American athletes play for Israel in a world championship.

Halacha & Hashkafa

Who Owns The Baseball?

By Raphael Grunfeld

What happens if two people are holding on to abandoned property and each claims to have found it first?

Israel / NY / UK / News Briefs / Asia / South America / Sports

Israel to Compete at World Baseball Qualifier in Brooklyn, NY

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli American baseball fans are paying attention to the action in Brooklyn: next month Israel competes against 3 countries in NYC.

Baseball Insider

1941: Baseball In America, War In Europe

By Irwin Cohen

Jewish baseball history was made by the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds on Sunday, September 21, 1941, as the team had four Jews in its starting lineup – the first and thus far only time that’s happened in the major leagues.

Jewish / News Briefs / Sports

Dodgers Stadium has Minyans but no Kosher Food

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 […]

Israel / Jewish / US / Sports

Diplomatic Ties with US May Strike Out Baseball in Cuba

By JTA

Cuba has “the largest pool of untapped baseball talent in the world, and Major League Baseball may tap and leave Cuba dry.

Jewish / News Briefs / Sports

Detroit Tigers' New Jewish Relief Pitcher Brings Team Closer to a Minyan

By JTA

The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.

News Briefs

Ump Says Boy Can’t Play Ball With Tzitzit; Team Walks Off Field

By Jewish Press Staff

Nine-year-old Yossi was the only Jewish player in his Arizona little league. His refusal to give up tzitzit was a lesson in humility.

US / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Kerry, Livni and Abbas Take a Seventh-Inning Stretch

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A sports broadcaster would have his hands full trying to keep up with Wednesday’s fast-paced frantic Peace Talks Game.

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Sports

Tigers Summon the Tribe

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 […]

US / Politics / News Briefs / Religion / Sports / Judaism

Only the ADL Could Turn the ‘Redskins’ Name into a Jewish Issue

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Sports

America in Disgrace, Loses to Israel in Maccabiah Baseball Game

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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

US / News Briefs / Sports / Judaism

Ryan Braun’s Suspension Erases His ‘Good-Guy’ Image

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

‘Oh, Say Can You Sing the Right Lyrics?’ (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

We know that most Haredim in Israel don’t even know the Zionist anthem let alone sing it. But also America? It seems that way at the annual Flatbush Hatzolah-NYPD game. Anyway, ‘Good July 4 Yom Tov.’

Jewish / News Briefs / Sports

B’nai B’rith to Honor Baseball’s Bud Selig

By JTA

Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, will be honored B’nai B’rith International ,which will award him its Distinguished Humanitarian Award on June 27 in New York City for his efforts in youth education and training, diversity and environmental advocacy. Among those scheduled to speak at the dinner honoring Selig are Sharon Robinson, the […]

News Briefs / Sports

All Star Softball League: Janglo Breaks Good News, Noble Effort Pays Off

By Monty Wayland

Jerry’s Kids second game of the week was perhaps the most exciting of the season to date.

Interviews and Profiles

A Hero When Jews Desperately Needed One: An Interview with Hank Greenberg Biographer John Rosengren

By Elliot Resnick

To his parents’ friends, he was “Mrs. Greenberg’s disgrace,” but to sports fans he is one of the greatest – if not the greatest – Jewish baseball players of all time. Long before Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg excited Jewish sports fans with his prowess on the baseball diamond.

Op-Eds

Remembering Jackie Robinson's Fight Against Anti-Semitism

By Ami Eden

Robinson witnessed the valuable contributions that Jews were making to the black community's struggle.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Religion

Museum Seeks Jews’ Memories of Baseball

By JTA

Do you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Vandals Paint Swastikas on LA School Baseball Field

By Jewish Press News Desk

Vandals painted swastikas and the word “skinhead” on an elementary school baseball field in metropolitan Los Angeles, according to school officials. Orange County’s Kaiser Elementary School Principal Deborah Granger told the Los Angeles Times that school staff saw the hate messages when they returned to school on Monday. Swastikas were also were painted on trash […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Sports

The Jewish World Series: Home Run for Unison

By Guest Author

The need for such a Shabbat-considerate tournament came up last winter, when the basketball team of Houston’s Beren Academy had reached the semifinals, only to become the center of a national controversy.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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