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Valley Torah basketball coach linked to CSUN sanctions
Jewish Journal
December 14, 2016
An investigation into academic fraud and the Cal State Northridge (CSUN) men’s basketball team could involve the current head boys basketball coach at Valley Torah High School in Valley Village.
For Harvard’s Zach Yoshor, March Madness mixes with Shabbat-playing unease
Jewish Journal
March 17, 2015
Should Harvard upset North Carolina in the opening round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, Zach Yoshor will stay with the Crimson for their next game two days later – but the freshman guard acknowledges it won’t be easy.
At ‘Jewish March Madness,’ Hillel students gather for basketball and kibitzing
Jewish Journal
April 1, 2014
Dribbling blurs across four parallel basketball courts, the players who came for the Shabbaton that was the National Hillel Basketball Tournament filled a football field-size gymnasium in a marathon of games.
Contrite Bruce Pearl bringing his spirited style to Auburn basketball
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2014
Shortly after assembling the players trying out for the American squad he’d be coaching at the 2009 Maccabiah Games, Bruce Pearl brought them to Sabbath evening services at the Heska Amuna Synagogue in Knoxville, Tenn.
Bruce Pearl tapped as Auburn basketball coach
Jewish Journal
March 19, 2014
Bruce Pearl, who led the U.S. team to the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games, was hired as the head coach of the Auburn University men’s basketball team.
Aaron Liberman’s kippah makes basketball history
Jewish Journal
January 6, 2014
On Jan. 5, Aaron Liberman of Northwestern checked in for the final minute of action against Michigan in the Wildcats’ 74-51 men’s basketball loss in Ann Arbor. In the process, the redshirt freshman made history twice:
Penn State’s Jewish community weighs how to move forward
Jewish Journal
July 24, 2012
One unlikely venue for fallout from the Penn State University sex abuse scandal is the campus Hillel, for which now ousted university president Graham Spanier — the school’s first Jewish leader — was a fundraiser and vocal supporter.
Following basketball controversy, press is on Texas school group to be more inclusive
Jewish Journal
April 3, 2012
Comments by the head of a Texas school association at the center of a controversy over Sabbath accommodations is fueling a drive by its members to be more open to the needs of Jewish and Muslim schools.
Pa.’s Jake Cohen aims to lead Davidson to upset of Louisville
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2012
Jake Cohen, a junior forward, will lead his Davidson College squad into the NCAA Men\’s Basketball Tournament in its upset bid against Louisville.
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