Mark Hebscher on why Lou Marsh’s name must be removed from Canada’s top athletic award right now
My grandfather once told me he would never buy the Toronto Star because it had an anti-Israel bias, and a history of racism. He explained how a guy named Lou Marsh—a sportswriter who also became the newspaper’s sports editor for the last five years of his life—regularly put down minorities in his widely read columns. […]
Mark Hebscher further explains how Ida Schnall became a Jewish sports celebrity like no other
This is the third in a four-part series by Mark Hebscher for The Canadian Jewish News. If you missed earlier parts you should start reading here. “What we need, as part of the Zionist Movement, is Muscular Judaism. A cadre of young men and women who are strong, who are going to dispel the image of […]
The making of the greatest Jewish athlete ever (according to Hebsy)
This is the second in a four-part series by Mark Hebscher for The Canadian Jewish News. If you missed the first part you should start reading here. Bernard Schnall and Priva Perlmutter were both born and raised in the shtetl of Tarnobrzeg, Austria (now Poland), and married in 1884. The couple had eight children between […]
