Daniel Snyder, owner of the football team formerly known as the Washington Redskins, presided over a toxic workplace culture replete with sexual harassment, including from employees at the highest levels of the organization, according to a bombshell Washington Post report. The Post reported that “three former members of Snyder’s inner circle and two longtime members…
Nobody else was calling out former NBA star Stephen Jackson for publicly spewing anti-Semitic comments, so Mark Shepard, a 19-year-old college student, stepped up. “I said, ‘Dude you’re an anti-Semite’ to get his attention,” Shepard recalled Thursday in a phone interview. Jackson made his comments on Instagram Live after his friend DeSean Jackson, a star…
In a live-streamed conversation with prominent Conservative leader Rabbi David Wolpe, activist and basketball player Stephen Jackson walked back some of his inflammatory comments and asserted his love for Jewish people. He vowed to speak out against antisemitic rhetoric when he encounters it in the future. The conversation, which was viewed live on Instagram by…
(JTA) — University of Alabama wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, a top NFL prospect, wore an interesting accessory to a news conference at the league’s scouting combine: a Star of David necklace. Jeudy, 20, told reporters that he was wearing the Jewish star because his last name is Jeudy and “people sometimes call me Jeu,” pronounced…
Reports that hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen is in talks to buythe New York Mets from the Wilpon family are likely a relief to fans of the troubled National League team. But they’re also a reminder: Jews are vastly represented among the ranks of sports owners. Out of 147 teams in the five major North…
Julian Edelman is an American hero — and a Jewish one. He helped the Patriots win the Super Bowl this past February, earning the title of first Jewish player to be Super Bowl MVP. He has made several Israel pilgrimages, including a recent one with Pats owner Robert Kraft. While appearing on “The Late Show…
We don’t want to get too carried away by saccharine gestures made to stoke goodwill for a hated sports team which ultimately seeks to generate as much revenue as possible, but… dang! Watching Jewish wide receiver Julian Edelman validate a tween girl who was bullied for loving football is pretty heartwarming. Ahead of the Patriots’…
(JTA) — Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day. On Sunday, Rabbi Yossi Freedman, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Downtown Cleveland, affixed the mezuzah on the doorpost of Joseph’s city apartment and the rookie kicker hit a 37-yarder…
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