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Hank Greenberg scores after hitting a home run to give the Detroit Tigers a 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox, September 10, 1934. (UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
September 16, 2023, 3:13 am
Remembering Jewish baseball legend Hank Greenberg’s 1934 Rosh Hashanah dilemma
With the Detroit Tigers nearly neck-and-neck with the New York Yankees in the pennant race, the future Hall of Fame slugger had a tough choice to make on the Jewish new year
By jacob gurvis
JoAnn Mason Parker, once the wunderkind of competitive pool, is looking to make a comeback — and she's being inducted into the Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. (Parker Hill/J. The Jewish News of Northern California/ via JTA)
November 8, 2021, 3:26 am
Billiards legend and former Jewish educator JoAnn Mason Parker eyes pro comeback
Inducted into California’s Jewish Sports Hall of Fame last month, the one-time prodigy mulls bringing her aggressive style back to the professional circuit, after a 26-year hiatus
By Gabe Stutman
The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, June 27, 2006. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Coemgenus/Wikipedia)
August 9, 2021, 11:47 am
Hall of Fame unveils exhibit dedicated to NFL’s founding owners
Jewish owners of Minnesota Vikings donate $1 million for display paying tribute to men and women who made pro football the most popular sport in America
By Berry Wilner
In this June 25, 2008, file photo, Hal Blaine holds up his hands covered in cement after placing them in wet cement with Don Randi and Glen Campbell, representing The Wrecking Crew following an induction ceremony for Hollywood's RockWalk in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
March 12, 2019, 2:54 pm
Hal Blaine, legendary Jewish drummer for Elvis, Sinatra, Lennon, dies at 90
Hall of Famer, a session musician for countless top hits in ’60s and ’70s, and possibly the most recorded drummer ever, spoke about his Jewish upbringing in 1990 memoir
By AP and ToI Staff
Robert Kraft, center, with Marshall Faulk, right, and, in rear, from left, Ron Yary, Roger Staubach and Dave Casper, June 15, 2017. (Hillel Kuttler via JTA)
October 20, 2017, 8:34 am
TV film debuts on Kraft and NFL Hall of Famers’ visit to Israel
One-hour special spotlights pilgrimage by Patriots owner, 18 football players to the Western Wall, Dead Sea, and the Jordan River
By Victor Wishna
In this Sunday June 18, 2017 photo, 18 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame are introduced by HOF President David Baker at Kraft Family Stadium in Jerusalem. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
June 19, 2017, 6:44 am
NFL Hall of Famers laud Israelis’ sense of family, love for their country
1,000 local fans flock to Jerusalem’s Kraft Family Stadium to meet with some of the 18 ‘Gold Jackets’
By Jacob Magid
Anthony Ervin of the USA reacts after winning the Men's 50m Freestyle Final during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
December 26, 2016, 5:19 am
Athletes elected to International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Three Americans honored are Anthony Ervin, Thelma ‘Tybie’ Thall-Sommers, and Albert Von Tilzer
By JTA
Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf (YouTube screenshot)
September 13, 2016, 3:34 am
NBA’s Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame
Reinsdorf recalls becoming hooked on NBA after realizing as a Jewish boy that he had ‘a better chance of owning a team than playing for one’
By JTA
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and owner Robert Kraft are all smiles after beating the Indianapolis Colts, January 2015. (Elsa/Getty Images/via JTA)
June 17, 2015, 12:23 pm
Football hall of famers to butt heads with Israelis
Patriots owner will huddle with 19 gridiron greats in the Holy Land to tackle football’s future in the Jewish state
By Gedalyah Reback
US President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jay Leno during a commercial break at a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in Los Angeles, in August 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
March 12, 2014, 7:51 pm
Jay Leno hailed as the Israel of comedy
He’s not flawless, but he is also held to an impossible standard, talk show host Bill Maher says
By AP and ToI Staff
Boyd Melson delivers a left hook (photo credit: courtesy)
December 2, 2013, 6:11 am
Real men donate their purses to charity
Jewish boxer Boyd Melson is going eight rounds for Team Fight to Walk on Wednesday in NY to help those with spinal injuries
By Howard Blas
Hank Greenberg at the 1937 All-Star game.
April 12, 2013, 2:08 pm
Before Jackie Robinson, there was Hank Greenberg
As a blockbuster film opens in the US Friday about the man who broke baseball’s color barrier, the sport’s first Jewish superstar is not forgotten
By Ben Zehavi
Art Modell, the late owner of the Baltimore Ravens, embraces star linebacker Ray Lewis in 2001. (photo credit: Courtesy of the Baltimore Ravens via JTA)
February 3, 2013, 2:27 am
Ravens’ late Jewish owner misses Hall of Fame cut
As Baltimore team plays in Super Bowl, Canton decides not to honor Art Modell, who died in September
By ToI Staff
Art Modell, the late owner of the Baltimore Ravens, embraces star linebacker Ray Lewis in 2001. (photo credit: Courtesy of the Baltimore Ravens via JTA)
January 31, 2013, 11:29 pm
Can purple cholent power the Ravens to Super Bowl supremacy?
Baltimore Ravens’ Semitic supporters ready to wear or eat whatever it takes to bring a championship home
By Chavie Lieber
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