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Cleveland Browns sale ends 51-year Jewish ownership

Jewish Journal August 3, 2012

The sale of the Cleveland Browns ends 51 years of Jewish ownership of the National Football League team.

Chai Lifeline to send 12-year-old to the Super Bowl

Ryan Torok February 4, 2011

Adam Wolf, a 12-year-old with cerebral palsy, was stunned when Randi Grossman, West Coast director of the Chai Lifeline, called to tell him that the organization would pay for him to go to the Super Bowl.

A Minyan in the Outfield

Jewish Journal September 23, 1999

From his office in Pico-Robertson, Ephraim Moxson counts Jewish professional athletes. There are five playing in the National Hockey League, a couple in the National Basketball Assn., four in the National Football League. But in Major League Baseball, there will be, by the end of 1999, 11 Jewish ballplayers. \”That\’s more than any decade, even the 1960s,\” says Moxson, co-publisher of the Jewish Sports Review.\nWhich raises two questions: Why so many Jews in the majors? And why should we care?