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Fast Forward The NFL season is here — with no publicly Jewish players appearing in Week 1
Veterans Greg Joseph, Jake Curhan, Anthony Firkser and Michael Dunn could all return to action this season
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Sports The NFL rookie with the name Jews cannot say aloud. (Or can they?)
Adonai Mitchell might start for the Indianapolis Colts. What’s a Jewish fan to do?
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Fast Forward Jewish NFL player Greg Joseph kicks 36-yard game-winning field goal after wearing cleats declaring ‘I Stand with Israel’
Joseph wore cleats benefitting Israel’s national food bank
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Sports Packers running back talks Hebrew schooling in very Jewish podcast appearance
AJ Dillon's got crazy quads, a popping TikTok and ... afikoman prizes?
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The Schmooze Julian Edelman Is The First Jew To Become Super Bowl MVP
“Jews are bad at sports” is one of the last remaining anti-Semitic stereotypes that’s considered okay to say. After Sunday night, when Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was presented with the Super Bowl MVP award, it simply sounds like nonsense. Edelman helped the New England Patriots cruise to a 13-3 victory against the Los Angeles…
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Fast Forward Julian Edelman Raises $10K For Pittsburgh Victims By Selling Cleats
BOSTON (JTA) — A California firm paid $10,000 for a pair of Julian Edelman’s game shoes to benefit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The New England Patriots’ wide receiver wore the cleats — stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli…
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Fast Forward Baltimore Ravens Lineman To Wear Israeli Flag On His Cleats
(JTA) — As a defensive lineman for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, Michael Pierce has no love for quarterbacks. But the non-Jewish 340-pound athlete from Alabama does have a soft spot for Israel. Pierce selected the Israel Collective, a millennial arm of the Christians United for Israel organization, as his cause for the league’s “My Cause,…
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Fast Forward NFL Kicker Makes Game-Winning Field Goal On Day He Got New Mezuzah
(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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