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Female athlete raising her arms in victory
Posted inSports

Stanford alum wins beach volleyball Olympic gold in Tokyo

by Emily Burack and JTA August 6, 2021
Jessica Fox of Team Australia competes during the women’s kayak slalom semifinal at the Tokyo Olympics. (Photo/JTA-Adam Pretty-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

All the Jewish athletes who have won medals at the Tokyo Olympics

by Emily Burack and JTA July 29, 2021
Sidney Marantz boasts a collection of over 12,000 Olympic pins. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Marantz)
Posted inSports

A 76-year-old Jewish philanthropist from Los Angeles is one of the world’s most prolific Olympic pin traders

by Stephen Silver and JTA July 27, 2021July 27, 2021
Israel's Avishag Semberg competes in the women's under 49kg taekwando tournament on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics, July 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Danny Lawson-PA Images via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

19-year-old taekwondo fighter wins Israel’s first Olympic medal in Tokyo

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA July 26, 2021
The Japanese Emperor Naruhito, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and others stand for a moment of silence during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Photo/JTA-Martin Rickett-PA Images via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

For first time, Olympics opening ceremony honors Israeli athletes murdered in Munich

by Emily Burack and JTA July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
Artem Dolgopyat performs at the gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 12, 2019. The Associated Press picked Dolgopyat to win a gold medal in Tokyo. (Photo/JTA-Tom Weller-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

The AP predicts that Israel will win 7 Olympic medals. That would make history.

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Sue Bird drives to the basket in the women’s gold medal game between the United States and Spain at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Aug. 20, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Tom Pennington-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

All the Jewish athletes to watch at the Tokyo Olympics

by Emily Burack and JTA July 6, 2021
Crimean Karaites attend services in Simferopol, Crimea, June 9, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Sergei Malgavko-TASS via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Ukraine honors Karaite Jews as ‘indigenous,’ and Putin is furious

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 17, 2021
A cohort of young Jews is trying to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism on social media. Clockwise from top left: Julia Jassey, Blake Flayton, Isaac de Castro, Eve Barlow and Ben Freeman. (Photo illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
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Young Zionists are fighting antisemitism on social media. What are they accomplishing?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 10, 2021
As a young girl, Lori Shearn was saved from the Nazis through a brief ad in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Posted inBay Area, World, History, News, Seniors

How 20 words in a Jewish newspaper saved this Marin woman from the Holocaust

by Mathilde Frot June 9, 2021

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