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Sports She was the Sandy Koufax of ping pong. Now she’s the star of a children’s book.
'Ping-Pong Shabbat' puts into print the story of a modern (Orthodox) ping pong prodigy
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Sports ‘Hard work beats talent:’ Meet the 20-year-old Orthodox table tennis phenom battling discrimination and aiming for the Olympics
Estee Ackerman, a Yeshiva University senior, beat Rafael Nadal at ping pong as a preteen and is nationally ranked in her sport — and she’s just getting started
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Music Former Table Tennis National Champion, Maccabiah Games Competitor to Appear in New York Philharmonic
Michael Landers, a former national table tennis champion who competed in 2013’s Maccabiah Games, is set to appear in his New York Philharmonic debut on February 20, in Andy Akiho’s concerto “Ricochet.” While the New York Times reports that Landers has perfect pitch and a fondness for bassoon, it his table tennis prowess that will…
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Breaking News Disabled Ping Pong Player Yael Elbag Banned for Playing on Yom Kippur
The Israel Sports Association for the Disabled banned a table tennis player from representing Israel for two years, saying that she played in a tournament last Yom Kippur. Yael Elbag, in her fifties, was accused of participating in a doubles match on the Day of Atonement, thus ignoring a Culture and Sports Ministry directive banning…
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Breaking News Ping Pong Prodigy Won’t Play on Shabbat
Estee Ackerman, an 11-year-old table tennis star, was disqualified from the national finals when her match fell on Friday evening and she chose not to play, the New York Post reported. “I practiced and trained for six months for this,” the sixth-grader from West Hempstead, L.I. told the paper “Ping pong is important to me,…
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