The bobsled/skeleton track in Germany is about 2 ½ miles from Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s vacation home. When Jared Firestone of Hollywood, Florida, competed on that track last season as a member of the Israeli team, he made sure to wear a helmet he had specially emblazoned with the Star of David. “It was important for…
(JTA) — The International Olympics Committee apologized for including a video of the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Olympics along with the words “stronger together” in a series of short videos celebrating the “message of unity and solidarity” of the Olympics. But the apology did not note the substance of the objection…
(JTA) — In a historic first, Israel’s national baseball team qualified for a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The team defeated South Africa on Sunday at the Europe/Africa Qualifier tournament in Italy. It finished the qualifier with a record of 5-1. Israel has become the only team besides Japan to qualify for next summer’s…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli team will compete in equestrian show jumping for the first time at the Olympics. Israel’s four-rider squad, including a woman from New York and a man who twice represented his native Colombia, qualified Sunday for the 2020 Tokyo Games, narrowly defeating Poland during the Olympic qualifier in Moscow. Along with…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Israel started the first day of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with a gold medal in swimming. Anastasia Gorbenko, 15, won the Women’s 200m Individual Medley on Sunday. She also set a new Israeli record of 2:12.88. Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikva,” was heard poolside during the medal ceremony on…
Imagine this: you’re a national organization. Your former employee was found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of children, many while he was in your employ. Reports find that your organization has, for decades, “failed to alert police to many allegations of sexual abuse” and consistently created systems that kept predators safe. Now you have to…
140 women in evening gowns and jewels file onto the stage at the ESPYs, the athletic awards held by ESPN on Wednesday night. The women fall into lines, many clutching each others’ hands — rows and rows of star athletes who have gone on to become academics, doctors, mothers, lawyers, and Olympians. They overflow onto…
Nicole Schott, a German figure skater, was roundly criticized on Twitter for skating to a song from the score of the famous Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List,” the New York Daily News reported. Dozens of tweets about the performance quickly put the movie’s title on Twitter’s list of trending topics When you realize a German ice…
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