Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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Sports As MLB veteran Kevin Pillar enjoys a late-career resurgence in LA, he’s come to appreciate his place as a Jewish baseball star
In a wide-ranging interview with JTA, Pillar reflected on his upbringing, his relationship with Israel and his legacy as one of the game’s most accomplished Jewish players
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Fast Forward LA’s Academy Museum to revise exhibit on Jewish founders after criticism from Jewish Hollywood figures
An open letter from Jewish Hollywood workers accused the museum of trafficking in antisemitism in its new exhibit on the industry’s Jewish founders
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Sports The Jewish Sport Report: This Jewish publicist is Hall of Fame-bound
Also in the Sports Report . . . Orthodox MLB prospect and Team Israel pitcher Jacob Steinmetz has been heating up in Single A
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Fast Forward Some Jewish groups protest Biden’s executive order on immigration, but others are staying silent
'We do not need to look too far back into our history to see what has happened when this country has turned its back on people,' said a HIAS official
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Fast Forward Hulu’s ‘Clipped’ dramatizes the real story of Jewish LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s sordid downfall
Sterling’s Jewish identity was a focal point of the 2014 racism scandal that led to his lifetime ban from the NBA.
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Sports Jewish Sports Report: Is this the year Max Fried finally wins the Cy Young?
This season, Fried has taken his dominance to a new level
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Sports The Jewish Sports Report: Israeli basketball team reunites in NYC after being torn apart by Oct. 7
One member of the team was taken hostage and returned to Israel with his sister as part of a ceasefire deal and hostage release in November
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Culture LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.
The museum's opening more than two years ago sparked controversy for not including the industry’s Jewish beginnings
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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