Israel’s Olympic baseball team preps for Tokyo and looks to expand the sport
By HILLEL KUTTLER MISGAV, Israel (JTA) – As more than 20 men wearing blue-and-white baseball uniforms walked along Tel Aviv’s ...
Tag: Olympics
Editorial: From Russia with hate
The big football news, post-Super Bowl, is that Missouri All-American defensive end Michael Sam is gay. "I am an openly, ...
Editorial: Russia’s antigay laws and the Olympics
The Olympic movement professes to be above politics; but politics has dogged the Olympic Games since 1936. Berlin won the ...
Raisman, Down Under athletes soar among Jewish Olympians
JTA STAFF REPORT (JTA) — U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman and athletes from Down Under were the story for Jewish sports ...
Munich widows call for own moment of silence at opening ceremonies
(JTA) — Widows of Israelis murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics are asking the crowd at the opening ceremonies of ...
