Baseball Archives

10 Oct

From the Archive, Jewish World, Latest, Sports

From 1984 | Home (Plate) for the Holidays

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Robert L. Cohen

March 20, 2025

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Probably every Jew of my (baby-boom) generation knows that Sandy Koufax sat out an important game for the Dodgers on Yom Kippur

17 Jul

Latest, The Wisdom Project

Wisdom Project | Annette Lerner, 94, Is Ready for Her Next Artistic Adventure

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Jodi Blecker

October 16, 2024

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Annette Morris Lerner first landed a prop plane at age 12. She is a gifted artist, an author, a devoted mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother many times over.

02 Jul

Cover Story, Featured, Food, Summer 2024, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table | Hot Diggity Dog!

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Molly Foster

July 8, 2024

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“He is the creature whose yells make night hideous, and whose wares make dreams that poison sleep,” began a Nashville newspaper’s 1886 characterization of the wienerwurst vendor.

22 Jul

Culture, Latest

From the Archives | Home (Plate) for the Holidays?

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Robert L. Cohen

August 31, 2021

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When important baseball games fall on Shabbat or the High Holy Days, what's a Jewish baseball player to do?

Extra Innings , Directed by Albert Dabah

30 Oct

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest, Sports

When Baseball Was Too American for Jews

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Dina Gold

March 20, 2025

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Albert Dabah, the writer and director of the truly wonderful drama Extra Innings, has delivered a heartrendingly personal portrayal based on his own life story.

07 Sep

Jewish World, Latest, Sports

How Two Jewish Baseball Players Processed the 1972 Munich Massacre

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Jason Turbow

March 20, 2025

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They weren’t just Jews but Jewish athletes, going about their professional lives in a strange city, as the Israelis had been doing a day earlier.

06 Apr

Israel, Latest, Sports

As Baseball Season Starts, Still Cheering for Team Israel

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Aviva Kempner

March 20, 2025

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As the Major League Baseball season starts this week, some of us Jewish baseball fans are still reminiscing how well Team Israel did last month in the World Baseball Classic.

15 Sep

Sports

Remembering Lipman Pike

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Moment

July 16, 2025

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by Richard Michelson The Answer is Lipman Pike. The category is Jewish baseball stars. Which of these is the correct Jeopardy! question? Which player hit 6 home...

16 Nov

2011 September-October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish World, Sports

Is This the Golden Age of Jewish Baseball?

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David Elfin

March 20, 2025

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A new generation of high-caliber Jewish major league players—including four All-Stars—takes the field. Plus exclusive profiles of Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Danny Valencia and Kevin Youkilis.

Culture, History

In or Out of the Jewish Clubhouse?

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Sala Levin

August 26, 2011

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by Theodore Samets “Of the roughly 17,000 guys who’ve played professional baseball, precious few are Jews.” That was how Scott Barancik, editor of Jewish Baseball News, framed...

Culture, Latest, Religion

Play Hard, Pray Harder

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elisniv

May 8, 2012

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By Gabriel Weinstein Just two years after leaving the University of Florida facing charges of larceny and theft Auburn University quarterback Cameron Newton was full of...