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NFL Legends Nick Lowery and Tony Richardson meet with the father of brother of Hamas captive Na'ama Levy. (Photo courtesy of Eric Rubin)
January 8, 2025, 4:53 pm
‘We love and support you’: NFL legends pay solidarity visit to Israel
“They now know why we can't be defeated,” according to Eric Rubin, a member of the Athletes for Israel advisory board.
By Rolene Marks
Sam Salz during Texas A&M's game against New Mexico State at Kyle Field, Nov. 16, 2024 in College Station, Texas. (Rob Havens/Aggieland Illustrated)
November 19, 2024, 3:23 pm
Sam Salz is likely the first Orthodox Jew to appear in a Division I college football game
Salz, a walk-on with the Texas A&M Aggies since 2022, made his long-awaited debut Saturday night after Shabbat.
By Jacob Gurvis
Greg Joseph kicks a field goal during a preseason game between the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Ravens, Aug. 24, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. (Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
August 29, 2024, 2:02 pm
The NFL season is here — with no publicly Jewish players appearing in Week 1
Last season, five Jewish players got on the gridiron
By Jacob Gurvis
estern Pennsylvania native Jonathan Tekac is. Israel’s flag football team’s head coach. He spoke at a recent “Bring Them Home” rally. (Photo by Jonathan Dvir)
August 5, 2024, 4:38 pm
PA native drives the ball downfield as head coach of Israel’s flag football team
“But it was the players that started to come back and say, ‘Hey, coach, we have to have practice. We need it,’” he said.
By David Rullo
Kollel Jewish Learning Center (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
October 4, 2023, 1:05 pm
Kollel hosts “Torah and Turf”
A friendly but competitive evening of athletics combined with three- to five-minute Torah “mini-lectures” before each game.
By Justin Vellucci
Jake Curhan of the Seattle Seahawks looks on before the game against the Chicago Bears in Seattle, Dec. 26, 2021. (Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
August 31, 2023, 12:48 pm
All the Jewish NFL players to watch in the 2023-2024 season
Jewish summer camp, BBYO and Jewish day school
By Jacob Gurvis
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft looks on from the sidelines as his team warms up before a game against the Detroit Lions at Gillette Stadium on Oct. 9, 2022 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images)
October 31, 2022, 2:38 pm
Patriots owner Robert Kraft funds NFL TV ad about standing up ‘against Jewish hate’
The ad aired during a weekend in which the message “Kanye is right about the jews” was projected at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, during a college football game.
By Jacob Gurvis
Supreme Court by Glenn Beltz, courtesy of flickr.com.
June 29, 2022, 12:01 pm
I’m glad Coach Kennedy can pray at the 50-yard line
The most memorable parts of school are not the curriculum, but demonstrations of character
By Laura E. Adkins
Anthony Firkser #86 of the Tennessee Titans runs a pass in for a touchdown during a game against the New York Jets at Nissan Stadium on Dec. 2, 2018, in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans defeated the Jets 26-22. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
November 17, 2021, 1:55 pm
Anthony Firkser opens up on being one of the few Jewish players in the NFL
He said he hasn’t experienced any antisemitism in the league, but is often the first Jewish person some of his teammates have ever met.
By Emily Burack
From left: Jackie Robinson (Hulton Archive/Getty Images); Hank Greenberg (Getty Images); Zach Banner (Katharine Lotze/Getty Images); and DeSean Jackson (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
July 15, 2020, 10:41 am
What Hank Greenberg’s friendship with Jackie Robinson can teach us today
"We must do what Greenberg did in 1947, what Heschel taught in 1963 and what Banner posted the other day. Change our hearts, put our arms around people and uplift each other."
By Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Laptop, Computer, Desktop PC, Human Hand, Office / soft focus picture / Vintage concept
January 23, 2020, 10:13 am
Kollel does football right with Torah and Turf
Did someone say football?
By Marc Rosenberg
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