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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

hockey

Trevor Connelly poses for a portrait after being drafted by the Vegas Golden Knights with the 19th overall pick during the 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft at Sphere on June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 15, 2025, 5:58 am
After accusations of antisemitism, a rising US hockey star nets a teshuva-fueled comeback
At 16, Trevor Connelly was dropped from his youth team for an Instagram post containing a swastika. The incident sparked a learning process – and an unlikely friendship with two clergy
By Ed Klajman
From left to right: Luke, Quinn and Jack Hughes pose for a photo before their NHL game at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, December 5, 2023. (Jeff Vinnick/JTA via NHLI via Getty Images)
August 23, 2024, 6:41 pm
Jewish brothers to grace cover of popular hockey video game
Jack, Luke and Quinn Hughes have all garnered accolades throughout their stellar careers, leading them to be the first set of brothers featured on the cover of a NHL video game
By jacob gurvis
Luke Kunin, #11 of San Jose Sharks, skates against Eisbaren Berlin during the NHL Global Series Challenge game between San Jose Sharks and Eisbaren Berlin at Mercedes-Benz Arena on October 4, 2022, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Martin Rose/Getty Images/ via JTA)
October 7, 2022, 6:25 pm
The (surprisingly many) Jewish NHL players to watch this season
As the puck sets to drop for the 2022-23 hockey season, one item not widely covered is the abundance of Members of the Tribe taking the ice. Here’s who to keep an eye out for
By EVELYN FRICK
From left, the brothers Hughes: Jack, Luke and Quinn. (@_quinnhughes on Instagram; background via Getty Images, JTA)
July 27, 2021, 3:57 am
These 3 hockey-playing Jewish brothers just made NHL history
The Hughes brothers of Orlando, Florida are the first American family to have three siblings drafted in the first round
By EVELYN FRICK
Adam Fox skates in a game against the Boston Bruins at the TD Garden in Boston, May 8, 2021. (Steve Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images via JTA)
July 1, 2021, 12:17 pm
NY Rangers’ Adam Fox named hockey’s top defenseman
23-year-old, a former star at Harvard, becomes first Jewish player to win major NHL award
By Marc Brodsky
Israel ice hockey captain Eliezer Sherbatov. (via Facebook)
August 16, 2020, 10:03 pm
Israeli ice hockey captain defends joining Auschwitz hometown team
Eliezer Sherbatov, facing accusations of ‘treason,’ says he’s ‘playing for the Holocaust victims’
By Guillaume LAVALLÉE
The 1983 Canadian national junior hockey team that competed in the world championship in then-Leningrad. Sherwood Bassin is seated front row center, to the right of the goalie. (Courtesy/Hockey Canada)
September 8, 2019, 3:36 am
The Cold War caper that saw future hockey stars sneak prayer books to USSR Jews
Sherry Bassin says that he was ‘just doing what’s right’ when he convinced Canada’s junior hockey players to hide religious items among their gear for the 1983 championship
By Robert Sarner
Bracha Hermon
August 6, 2017, 2:21 pm
Bracha Hermon
Lament of an unlikely hockey mom
Why won’t Jerusalem support the sport that would flourish were it only able to use the city’s new ice rink?
Graphic designer Avi Dunkelman in his Toronto, Ontario home studio. (Courtesy)
January 1, 2017, 11:48 am
Israeli artist makes impression on Canadian postage stamps
Like most Sabras, graphic designer Avi Dunkelman grew up on soccer. But through a huge project for Canada Post, he now plays a pivotal position in home delivering Canada’s passion — hockey
By Robert Sarner
Jessica Berman, a vice president and deputy general counsel for the National Hockey League, says she has a 'dream job.' (Thomas Nycz/NHLI/via JTA)
September 6, 2015, 12:01 am
NHL lawyer may become first female head of men’s sports league
When her young husband was in a month-long coma from a stroke, Jessica Berman faced the crisis the only way she knows — head on
By Hillel Kuttler
Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) makes a save in the third period of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., Saturday, June 6, 2015. The Blackhawks player jumping at right is Antoine Vermette. Tampa defeated Chicago 4-3. (Dirk Shadd/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
June 8, 2015, 12:48 pm
Jewish NHL owner chills before game 3
At the Stanley Cup, Tampa Bay Lightning’s Jeffrey Vinik says when the hockey puck’s in play, there’s a no-talking rule in his family box
By Hillel Kuttler
Israeli-Canadian hockey player David Levin, No. 71, is set to be a first-round pick in the Canadian junior league draft. (screen capture: YouTube/TheScout.ca)
From the WebApril 8, 2015, 8:03 am
Israeli teen to be first pick in Ontario hockey draft
15-year-old David Levin, who moved to Canada in 2012, set to be snapped up by Canada’s junior league in 2015, the Toronto Sun reports
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, left, presenting Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings with the Stanley Cup at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, June 13, 2014. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NHLI via Getty Images/ via JTA)
January 22, 2015, 8:45 pm
Hockey always king for NHL’s Jewish commissioner
No one in sports is surprised about Gary Bettman’s JTS prize for ‘exemplary ethics and communal commitment’
By Hillel Kuttler
Ex-NHL player Laurie Boschman instructing young Israeli hockey players at the Canada Centre in Metulla, July 2014. (photo credit: JTA/Courtesy: Laurie Boschman)
August 24, 2014, 5:39 am
North Americans bring hockey know-how to Israel
Eight Canadian and American players run camp for local kids in northern town of Metulla
By Hillel Kuttler
Disney’s ‘The Mighty Ducks’ goalie Greg Goldberg (right) was nearly at the center of an anti-Semitic incident in the final film, according to producer Jordan Kerner. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
June 11, 2014, 5:48 pm
‘Mighty Ducks’ nearly fought anti-Semites
Producer reveals original ending of third film — which was ultimately changed — intended to feature slur against Jewish player
By Adam Soclof
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