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Israeli-American baseball player Zev Moore signed a professional contract this week with the Trenton Thunder of Major League Baseball’s Draft League. According to Moore’s publicist, he became the second Orthodox Jew to play professional baseball, while also becoming the second player raised in Israel to sign a contract allowing him to compete at that level.

Argentine soccer icon Lionel Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, has built one of soccer’s most decorated careers. Throughout his illustrious career, Messi has cultivated a measured public image, rarely commenting on politics or becoming involved in major public controversies.

Ben & Jerry’s independent Israel operation has come up with a flavor that does not leave much to interpretation. Called “Milk and Honey,” the biblical description of the Land of Israel, its ingredients are supplied by Israeli cows and bees and its chocolate fudge pieces come shaped like Stars of David.

Watching television in his home in Hollywood, Calif. — a fan of “Chopped!” and “Beat Bobby Flay”— Sruly Meyer dreamed of being on the Food Network. With word that a new show called “100 Cooks” was being cast, producers contacted him, saying they were impressed with his Instagram posts. 100 home chefs in America enter an arena, where they are randomly selected to compete against each other to win $100,000.

By Kenny Griffel, International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame World Cup In celebration of the 2026 World Cup, here are Jewish sportspeople involved in this year’s tournament. In the history of World Cup tournaments, there have not been many Jewish...

For some Jewish fans of the New York Knicks, the most salient number related to the team’s NBA championship win on Saturday was not 94 — the team’s final point tally — or 53 — the number of years since the last title. It was 613 — the date of the victory (6/13) and the number of commandments (mitzvot) in the Torah.

The director of “Son of Saul”, the Holocaust movie that won the Oscar award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016, said that the movie would’ve been ignored in today’s “shameless orgy of anti-Semitism.”

The workday begins at 5:30 a.m. It is now late morning on a snowy day in Boulder, and Steve Pagnotta still has an energetic bounce in his step. “I’m the late guy,” Pagnotta laughs, “but we are baking around the clock.” Pagnotta is general manager of Moe’s Broadway Bagel

Five Jewish couples got married earlier this month at a synagogue in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in what a local rabbi said was Ukrainian Jewry’s largest group wedding ceremony in years.

The theme of this latest entry into the growing and increasingly respected field of graphic novels about the Holocaust is amply expressed by the pair of nouns in the book’s title: color and memory. It was released in time for Yom HaShoah last month.