Sports
Alex Bregman is Baseball’s Next Jewish Star
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) – Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an encounter his father had at the World Series last fall. It was in Los Angeles, between innings of...
Bannister’s Bygone Era
Is the romance of the four-minute mile dead and gone in this high-tech age? I can’t say that I sit around and think an awful lot about the lost art of running against time. But since reading about the recent death of Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, the Englishman who was...
Baltimore Native Robert Gensler, 60, Completes Antarctic Ice Marathon — PressBox
By Evan Raigrodski There are few tasks more daunting than running a marathon. Marathons differ from most other competitions because the runners are typically not professional athletes. They are often everyday people who train to run 26.2 miles. Competing successfully...
A Race to the Bottom?
Major League Baseball’s labor peace appears to be overtaken by gathering clouds. By the time you have this issue of Jmore — the one with travel imagery on the cover — in your hands, there will be 30 Major League Baseball teams in Florida and Arizona preparing to start...
Beth Tfiloh Grad is a Star on Yeshiva University’s Basketball Team
Back in his high school days, Dani Katz helped the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School basketball team get into two conference championship games. Now a starter for the men’s basketball team at Yeshiva University in New York, Katz helped the Maccabees to their first...
Yeshiva University Men’s Basketball Team Qualifies for NCAA Division III Tournament
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament. On Feb. 25, the Maccabees defeated Purchase College, 87-81, in Purchase, New York, to win the Skyline Conference championship...
Winter Olympics 2018: 5 Jewish Storylines to Watch
(JTA) — The world is about to revolve around Pyeongchang, a mountainous county in the northern half of South Korea, for the upcoming Winter Olympics. Jewish fans won’t have quite as many standout athletes to cheer for this year as they did in 2016, when multiple...
What It’s Like to be Jewish in South Korea
(JTA) — Though the Jewish community in South Korea is small, Jews visiting the country to compete in or watch the Winter Olympic Games won’t have to skimp on kosher food or Shabbat programming. The country’s Chabad emissary is setting up a pop-up...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She will Serve as Long as She Has ‘Steam’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Jewish audience that she would serve on the Supreme Court as long as she felt up to it. Ginsburg, appearing Thursday at a Forward event at Adas Israel synagogue in Washington, D.C., appeared to confirm recent...Upcoming Events
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all-day Baltimore Jewish Film Festival @ Gordon Center for Performing Arts
Baltimore Jewish Film Festival @ Gordon Center for Performing Arts 
Apr 19 all-day
The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival includes international films of Jewish interest. Here’s the schedule: April 8, 2 p.m.: “Body & Soul: An American Bridge” at Reginald F. Lewis Museum April 10, 7:30 p.m.: “Ben Gurion,[...]
all-day Friends of the Towson Library Bo... @ Towson Library
Friends of the Towson Library Bo... @ Towson Library
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Shop for gently used books in all subjects, plus plenty of children’s books. This one fills up fast and gets thoroughly picked over so come early and bring your book bags to fill up. For[...]
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7:00 pm Mixology Tisch @ Beth El Congregation
Mixology Tisch @ Beth El Congregation
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Intended to increase the joy of Shabbat, this event mixes three craft cocktails with three shots of Torah. Each month, a mixologist demonstrates how to mix drinks while three short pieces of Torah are explored.
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