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Three-peat! DJDS Tigers varsity boys are district champs

For the third straight year in a row, the Denver Jewish Day School varsity boys basketball team are district champions.

Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands

In December, 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later,...

David Rubenstein heads group acquiring the Orioles

Jewish billionaire businessman David Rubenstein has reportedly agreed to purchase the Baltimore Orioles.

From CU to bobblehead

Since being “bobbleheaded” last August, Jason Brown, a 2014 bronze medalist at the Sochi Olympics at 19 years old, and 2015 US national champion, has come to realize...

It’s Oscar time — Jewi-ish films get nominations

The year’s biggest movie phenomenon was a one-two punch of blockbusters with Jewish roots — and they both came up big at the Oscar nominations. 
 The Oscars will...

‘Sammy the Spider’ creator recognized in the Sydney Taylor Awards

A lavishly illustrated children’s book about a Chinese Jewish family who celebrate both Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year is among the top winners of this year’s...

Tel Aviv street art reflects war

The horrors of war impacted the walls of Tel Aviv: creators started filling them with large artworks dedicated to the fallen, the taken and the heroes of Oct. 7 and...

‘One Life’ tells the story of the ‘British Schindler’

In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen...

The chilling ‘Zone of Interest’

“The Zone of Interest” is not like other Holocaust movies. 
 Directed by British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, the film initially appears to follow an...

‘I stand with Israel’ cleats kick winning field goal

A 3-0 score is extremely rare in the NFL. But when the Minnesota Vikings beat the Las Vegas Raiders Sunday night, Dec. 10, in the league’s lowest-scoring game since...