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Fatah youth soccer tourney honors three terrorists
Jewish Journal
August 23, 2012
Fatah held a youth soccer tournament named after three Palestinian terrorists.
Jewish school is denied request to change basketball tourney time
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2012
An Orthodox high school in Texas was rejected in its request to have the state basketball semifinals rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the Jewish Sabbath.\n
Shafir leaves for Eurobasket tourney with shooter sleeve
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2011
Orthodox Jewish women\’s basketball player Naama Shafir accompanied the Israel national team to Poland for the Eurobasket tournament. FIBA Europe — the Munich-based organization that governs basketball in Europe – had denied a request by the Israeli squad for Shafir to wear a T-shirt under her jersey for modesty reasons. All team players must wear the same uniform, according to FIBA rules.
Local community refuses to forget 12 missing Persian Jews
Norma Zager
October 12, 2006
Circuit news; Local community refuses to forget 12 missing Persian Jews; Smile, darn ya!; That\’s a WRRAP; A love match.
Ghanaian Kicks It Up for Israel Fans
Lisa Hirschmann
June 23, 2006
World Cup viewers were confronted with more than one big surprise on Saturday when Ghana defeated the Czech Republic 2-0 in what was perhaps the greatest upset of the tournament so far. The second shocker came when Ghanaian defender John Pantsil pulled an Israeli flag out of his sock during Ghana\’s celebrations of its two goals.
Israel’s Grand Duo
Bucky Fox
August 25, 2005
Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram think they can win the upcoming U.S. Open. Come again? The Grand Slam tennis tournament that no Israeli has come close to winning?
\”Every tournament we enter we think we can win,\” Ram said.
Erlich and Ram nearly backed that up two years ago at Wimbledon. They reached the doubles semifinals, and Ram butted into the mixed doubles final. That makes them the top Israeli Grand Slam duo in history.
Israel Serves Up a Star
Bucky Fox
August 26, 2004
Smashnova-Pistolesi has done it on the go. She was born 28 years ago in Minsk, Belarus. Her family moved to Israel when she was 14. She stays at her parents\’ home in Herzelia when she\’s in the country. She has her own home in Italy, where she lives with her husband, the former pro Claudio Pistolesi.
The Circuit
Gaby Wenig
October 16, 2003
A movie about the \”big 3-0\” and a good cause drew the famous and the wannabe famous to Club Ivar in Hollywood as \”Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts Thirty\” had its L.A. premiere on Sept. 28.
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