Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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Fast Forward Team Israel loses 11-5 to Miami Marlins in pre-World Baseball Classic exhibition game
'Playing for this team is super meaningful to me,' said veteran catcher Ryan Lavarnway
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News Team Israel is playing in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Here’s what to watch for.
Israel has more current MLB talent on its roster than ever. It’s also going to face its toughest competition yet
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Fast Forward Red Sox exec Chaim Bloom says he’s received antisemitism over team’s woes
Bloom told the Boston Globe he has received an antisemitic slur
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News ESPN’s Jeff Passan opens up on his Hebrew school upbringing, interviewing Sandy Koufax and Jewish baseball history
One of the game’s top reporters grew up attending Hebrew school three times a week
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Culture ‘Swastika boards’ and ‘surf Nazis’: New documentary explores surfing’s history of antisemitism
In 'Waves Apart,' director Josh Greene chronicles how he learned about the history from his bar mitzvah party and talks with famous Jewish surfers
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Fast Forward Team Israel’s baseball players were also filmmakers for a new documentary about their 2020 Olympic run
“Israel Swings for Gold” premieres Saturday at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
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Fast Forward A Jewish expert on monuments on what Philly’s famous Rocky Balboa statue can teach us about memory
Paul Farber, the host of the new NPR podcast “The Statue,” shares some Jewish nuggets from the “Rocky” franchise
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Fast Forward NBA player Meyers Leonard opens up on his antisemitism scandal to Jewish ESPN reporter
Leonard said he thought about suicide in the fallout of the incident
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