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Gio Gonzalez of the Washington Nationals celebrates with owner Ted Lerner after winning the National League East Division Championship on October 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. (G Fiume/Getty Images via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 8:54 am
Ted Lerner, real estate developer who returned baseball to Washington, dies at 97
Son of Jewish immigrants from Mandatory Palestine and Lithuania, Lerner built a property empire and acquired Washington Nationals, who won World Series in 2019
By Ron Kampeas
(Elie Kligman/Instagram via JTA)
July 14, 2021, 4:33 am
Second Orthodox baseball player drafted into MLB in 2 days
Elie Kligman, picked by the Washington Nationals, recently switched to playing catcher, reportedly in a bid to secure a deal where he won’t have to play on Shabbat
By Gabe Friedman
Washington Nationals' Yan Gomes and Daniel Hudson celebrate after Game 7 of the baseball World Series against the Houston Astros Wednesday, October 30, 2019, in Houston. The Nationals won 6-2 to win the series. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
October 31, 2019, 6:20 am
Washington Nationals top Astros to win first World Series title
Baseball team owned by the Lerners, a prominent Jewish DC -area family, brings city its first championship since the Senators won in 1924 with Game 7 win
By Ben Walker and ToI Staff
Jewish educator Yoni Kaiser-Blueth, right, with incoming George Washington University freshman Yonah Bromberg Gaber at a recent Washington Nationals game, said that Sandy Koufax’s Yom Kippur decision 'resonates especially today.' (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
September 26, 2015, 8:29 am
Why generations of American Jews won’t bat on Shabbos
Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game on Yom Kippur still resonates with Jewish youth 50 years later
By Hillel Kuttler
Leon Wieseltier (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
August 12, 2015, 3:36 pm
I can’t stand Bibi but he’s right on Iran, says eminent US intellectual
Leon Wieseltier talks tough on Netanyahu (‘dislike at first sight’), Obama being the first president to not have a special feeling for Israel, the dangers from Tehran, and presidential candidates ‘sucking up’ to America’s Jews
By Raphael Ahren
Ungar at bat (photo credit: Max Ungar)
June 16, 2012, 3:46 am
Jewish day school grad says ‘no thanks’ to the major leagues
Max Ungar turns down contract from Washington Nationals to play college baseball and get an education
By Renee Ghert-Zand
June 8, 2012, 4:53 pm
Washington Nationals draft Md. day school catcher Max Ungar
Day school graduate drafted to Major Leagues in the 36th round
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