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Dodgers go to bat for Israeli startup’s video technology
If you watch an NBA highlight on Facebook, Twitter or the league’s website, chances are an Israeli startup’s software produced and distributed it — automatically.
First Israeli MLB draftee begins climb in Dodger organization
The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Dean Kremer, a lean, 6-foot-3 20-year-old with a low-90s fastball and a devastating curveball — who happens to have already cemented his place in history as the first Israeli citizen to be drafted in Major League Baseball after being taken by the San Diego Padres last year.
Moving and shaking: Dodgers, ICRF Women of Action gala and more
In front of thousands of baseball fans on a recent evening in Chavez Ravine, Uri Herscher, founding president of the Skirball Cultural Center, threw out a ceremonial pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers squared off against the Colorado Rockies, who ended up winning 6-1.
See who a Koufax teammate discovered in England
Norm Sherry didn’t go ashore in 1952 when the ship that was transporting his U.S. Army infantry division stopped in England, the country of his mother’s birth.
Why Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game still matters 50 years later
Jesse Agler was pretty talented as a catcher and pitcher in Little League, yet his parents benched him regularly.
Moving and shaking: Rick Santorum, Brad Sherman, L.A. Dodgers and more
Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential hopeful, spoke for an hour on foreign policy, Iran and radical Islam at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills on Aug. 27 to a small but overwhelmingly sympathetic audience.