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Fast Forward For the first time in two decades, a sports video game gets a Jewish cover athlete. Or three.
Quinn, Jack and Luke Hughes will grace the cover of the 2025 edition of EA Sports’ popular NHL video game.
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Fast Forward One of Israel’s flag bearers in the Paralympics is a survivor of Oct. 7
Berdichevsky, the No. 41 ranked men’s wheelchair tennis player in the world, hid with his family for 14 hours as Hamas attacked their kibbutz on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward France suspends Olympic runner for anti-Israel posts, including one wishing the ‘most terrible and horrible degree of hell’ for Zionists
Muhammad Abdallah Kounta shared a post during the Israel-Hamas war asking Allah to “strike the Zionists"
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Sports A Jewish baseball event so rare it has only ever happened three times before
When Max Lazar threw to Garrett Stubbs and Joc Pederson struck out, the three Jewish ballplayers were making history
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News All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Jewish and Israeli athletes have won 18 total medals so far in sports ranging from swimming and judo to sailing and fencing at the 2024 Paris Games
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Fast Forward Jewish water polo star Sienna Green wins silver with Australia
Green, whose father played in the Maccabiah Games, scored three goals during the Olympic women’s water polo tournament
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Fast Forward Israel’s rhythmic gymnastics team wins silver, Israel’s 7th medal in Paris
The secretary general of Israel’s Olympic committee said his country’s seventh medal represents “our victory over what happened on Oct. 7"
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Fast Forward Jewish Olympic wrestling champion Amit Elor condemns antisemitism, after avoiding subject ahead of Paris
“My grandparents won. I won,” Elor said, holding up her gold medal, in an Instagram post responding to an antisemitic comment
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