The first Jewish basketball player to make the NBA All Star-Game was Dolph Schayes, in 1951. Schayes would go on to make the next eleven, his two-handed arcing jump shot and lightning-quick drives to ...

From the baseball diamond to the soccer pitch, from Vancouver to Paris, 2024 was a historic year for Jews in sports. Jewish athletes distinguished themselves across events, venues and tiers of ...

From the baseball diamond to the soccer pitch, from Vancouver to Paris, 2024 was a historic year for Jews in sports. Jewish athletes distinguished themselves across events, venues and tiers of ...

(JTA) — The co-hosts of a popular sports podcast declared on a recent episode that Jews “own everything” and are “the most powerful community in the world.” Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson ...

This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. Hello and happy Friday! It’s hard to believe that 2024 is already coming to an end. But you know what they ...

My favorite joke in the 1980 comedy Airplane! is, by the standards of a movie featuring a glue-inhaling Lloyd Bridges and an inflatable toy autopilot, one of its subtler gags. A passenger asks a ...

Last week, the Jewish Exponent ran a poll asking for readers’ thoughts on the most influential Jewish sports legends of all time. The poll had four names as choices — Olympic legend Mark Spitz, NBA ...