Treasure Trove: New York’s Polo Grounds saw some memorable moments in sports and Jewish history
New York’s Polo Grounds (1890-1964) hosted the New York Giants (both baseball and football), the New York Mets for two seasons, the New York Jets (then called the Titans), boxing matches and other sporting contests. What some say is the greatest baseball play of all time, “The Catch” made by Willie Mays in Game 1 […]
Treasure Trove has comes to life at an exhibit in New York City
Why would the Oriental Fisheries Co. of Chicago name a brand of the finest Norwegian brisling sardines after Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement and the visionary of the State of Israel? The truth is, I don’t know. Although some might say that branding tiny fish with Herzl’s name and likeness discredits his memory, […]
Remembering 9/11 and the New York loss of innocence—in Toronto 20 years later
Sept. 11, 2011 It’s an unseasonably hot night in New York and the haze is making the beams of the Memorial in Light hard to see. But the warm weather also reminds me of the weather on that unbelievably perfect Tuesday morning 10 years ago. As downtown came to life, the skies were a cloudless […]
