Opinion: The folly of pro-Palestinian protesters screaming at Jewish teenage girls playing softball in Surrey, B.C.
Did the protesters even realize who would be on the field when they showed up?
Winnipeg’s JCC encouraged the city’s pro sports teams to launch anti-hate campaigns at their games this summer
“Hate is not welcome here.” That’s the message shared in Winnipeg this year by its six professional sports teams through an initiative by the Rady Jewish Community Centre. The initiative is the brainchild of Rob Berkowits, executive director of the centre. He was inspired to do something after antisemitic tweets by rapper Kanye West last […]
McGill and Tel Aviv U team up in sports science research thanks to a $29M donation from Sylvan Adams
The former Montrealer who brought the Giro d’Italia Grand Tour cycling race to Israel a few years ago has made a landmark donation to McGill University for research into optimizing athletic performance. Sylvan Adams, who made aliyah in 2015, is giving $29 million for the creation of a sports science institute in the Department of […]
Final Round: Who’s the greatest Jewish athlete of all time?
Who is the GADYA, the Greatest All-time Diaspora Yiddish Athlete?
Q&A: Zach Hyman on what he’ll miss most about Toronto’s Jewish community
And why his jersey is hanging on the wall of Burger Shack.
The many Jewish implications of Zach Hyman signing with the Edmonton Oilers
Toronto’s hometown Jewish hero moves to Alberta.
A brief list of Jews to cheer on at the Olympics
And some of them are Canadian, too!
Marvin Pearl helped make Canada a Basketball Nation
Marvin Pearl has been credited with the success of high school basketball in Toronto
Jewish Cool Runnings: Canadian on Israeli bobsled team aims for Beijing
Asked how long it takes people who meet him to come up with a jibe about “Jewish Cool Runnings” – referring to the 1993 hit movie about the unlikely Jamaican bobsled team – Joey Starr chuckles and says: “Instantaneously.” He corrects himself: Nine out of 10 people make the connection, “and the 10th hasn’t seen […]
Is the 3-point boom good for Jewish basketball players?
Eric Koreen, who covers the Raptors for The Athletic, talks Jews in basketball on our Jewish sports podcast.
