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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

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Richard Simmons speaks to the audience before the start of a summer salad fashion show at Grand Central Terminal in New York on June 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)
July 14, 2024, 5:26 pm
Fitness and weight loss icon Richard Simmons dies at 76
Born to a Russian-Jewish mother, Simmons helped people lose weight through his silly public persona and exercise videos after having struggled with being overweight earlier in life
By Mark Kennedy
Swimmers dive into a pool during a meet as part of the British-Israeli Veterans Games in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
June 4, 2022, 9:36 am
British and Israeli veterans square off in fierce but friendly sports competition
Games held for second time at Tel Aviv’s Beit Halochem center for wounded veterans; 65 UK participants and their families tour the country as part of the week-long event
By Judah Ari Gross
81-year-old Effie Hertzke, in an interview with Channel 12 news, February 21, 2021. (Screenshot/Facebook)
February 21, 2021, 10:44 pm
Great-grandma flexes for camera, hits on news anchor as gyms reopen
81-year-old Effie Hertzke, a retired nurse, jokes with Channel 12 about her fitness as she’s interviewed on treadmill
By ToI Staff
Evolutionary biologist and author of 'Exercised' Daniel Lieberman takes a man's blood pressure in Mexico. (Photo by David Ramos)
February 7, 2021, 3:26 am
Loathe jogging? Harvard prof explains how humans evolved to be couch potatoes
In his book ‘Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding,’ Daniel Lieberman tackles myths and inaccuracies about physical fitness and the need for rest
By Cathryn J. Prince
Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer, in his office in the US District Court in Washington, DC, December 19, 2018. (Ron Kampeas)
January 6, 2019, 11:23 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer shares secrets of a healthy Supreme Court
Army reservist Bryant Johnson literally wrote the book on the RBG workout and is responsible for training the court’s other Jewish contingent — Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan
By Ron Kampeas
Sara Kupfer
February 26, 2018, 3:28 pm
Sara Kupfer
Being religious is a strike against me
It is not easy, but I am an empowered Orthodox Jew living in the 21st century, and I make my voice heard
Joanie Elian
August 16, 2017, 2:49 pm
Joanie Elian
Trump should try my HIIT workout
A cycle of high intensity efforts and less intense recovery times, with kind words throughout, would do him good
Judy Krasna
May 13, 2017, 11:53 am
Judy Krasna
Fitness trackers: Health or obsession?
For some personality types, counting steps is a dangerously unhealthy activity
The VIBE fitness bloggers and their guides after a day of cycling, hiking and swimming in the area of the Dead Sea (Courtesy Rachele Brooke Smith)
March 22, 2016, 4:35 pm
For visiting bloggers, a ‘remarkable’ 21k run in Jerusalem
‘This was one of the most challenging courses I’ve ever been on,’ says one obstacles expert
By Jessica Steinberg
Bahraini female bodybuilder and personal trainer Haifa al-Musawi prepares to train at a gym in Dubai on June 26, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / MARWAN NAAMANI)
July 28, 2015, 8:20 am
Arab female bodybuilder pushes against prejudice
Unable to represent her home country, Bahrain, Haifa Musawi looks abroad in her effort to join the professional circuit
By LYNNE AL-NAHHAS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 1, 2015 (Amir Levy/Flash90)
May 22, 2015, 4:05 am
Netanyahu gets clean bill of health
Prime minister in tip-top shape, personal physician says, and works out several times weekly
By ToI Staff
American track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee, center, jogs with Palestinian women in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
April 18, 2014, 11:07 pm
Running legend Joyner-Kersee trains with Palestinian women
Three-time gold medalist comes to West Bank to teach value of fitness to conservative society
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
Jen Selter's belfies have 1.3 million Instagram followers (photo credit: courtesy)
January 7, 2014, 6:12 am
Jewish woman builds career on butt
Jen Selter, queen of the belfies, or body selfies, on Instagram, wants to be the next Jillian Michaels
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Jordan Metzl, seen here riding a bicycle. (photo credit: Courtesy of Action Sports International/JTA)
July 6, 2012, 4:46 pm
Push your brain and your body, says sports physician and author Jordan Metzl
Metzl, recently named in New York magazine’s annual index of best doctors, is on a mission to get Jews off their tushes
By Elisa Spungen Bildner
Devora Mason
March 17, 2012, 8:57 pm
Devora Mason
I run, therefore I am
Why do we runners do this to ourselves, you may ask? It’s very simple: we’re all crazy!
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