Arnold Rothstein did fix the World Series and other Jewish facts from a historian of baseball and New York
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Breaking News New York Giants Player’s Home Hit by Swastikas and Racist Graffiti
An National Football League player’s northern New Jersey home was vandalized with a swastika and other racist taunts scrawled on the inside walls during a break-in this week, according to police and photos that the player posted online. The break-in happened on Tuesday night while Nikita Whitlock, a fullback with the New York Giants, and…
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The Schmooze Synagogue’s Giant Solution for Hametz Problem
Zak DeOssie of the New York Giants pays a Passover visit to Congregation Ansche Chesed. Courtesy of Jeremy Kalmanofsky For many a year, on the day before Passover, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky of Congregation Ansche Chesed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side inked a sales contract with his synagogue’s non-Jewish custodian, Tony Visioso. According to tradition, Visioso…
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The Schmooze Billy Crystal Gives Robin Williams a World Series Tribute
Getty Images Billy Crystal found another touching way to honor his close friend Robin Williams. Williams, an avid San Francisco Giants fan, lived in the Bay Area for a long time. So, before game five of the World Series on Sunday night, Crystal helped bring Williams’ children — Zelda, Cody, and Zak – out onto…
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Breaking News Giants Star Victor Cruz Visits Newtown
A visit with the grief-stricken family of a six-year-old victim from last week’s Connecticut elementary school massacre has left New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz looking at life through a different lens. The National Football League player said on Wednesday the 75-minute visit to the home of six-year-old Giants fan Jack Pinto, who was a…
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Opinion Eli’s Big Blue Boost for Charity
In this week’s issue, we profile Nechama — Jewish Response to Disaster, a not-for-profit group from Minnesota that has been helping clear debris from buildings damaged during Hurricane Sandy. We didn’t realize that the little-known group had a famous friend in the form of football superstar Eli Manning. While Nechama volunteers were working in northern…
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News Breathing Life Into Faded Home for Rich
Video: Nate Lavey If a robber baron went bust in New York in the 1930s, there was a place he could go where servants would still make his bed and waiters would still serve his meals. All he needed was a little cigar money. Endowed by an eccentric and volatile Jewish millionaire named Andrew Freedman,…
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News Skip the Ads, Watch Torah at Halftime
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thrust religion into the consciousness of football fans everywhere this year by famously taking a knee and bowing his head in prayer on the field. And while his prayers caused their fair share of controversy, not everyone thinks mixing football and religion is such a bad thing. Ahead of Super…
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