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April 9, 2010

Boxing Champ Hopkins Attends Las Vegas Seder

Call him Bernard “The Rabbi” Hopkins. The former middleweight and light heavyweight boxing champ, famous for his “Executioner” nickname and persona, attended a Passover dinner just outside Las Vegas less then 24 hours after defeating Roy Jones Jr. on April 3, a rematch 17 years in the making. He addressed a crowd of about 150 people commemorating the story of the Jews’ crossing the Red Sea.

‘Holy Land Hardball’ returns to MLB Network starting April 11.

The scariest part of making dreams a reality is how quickly they can disappear. When Boston bagel baron Larry Baras finally succeeded in bringing professional baseball to the Jewish state in 2007 with the Israel Baseball League (IBL), it was hard for him to see that dream vanish after a single season.

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