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Jewish baseball players to watch in 2022
JTAApr 21, 2022
After two pandemic-altered seasons, a three-month lockout and a truncated free agent frenzy, the 2022 Major League Baseball season is finally here.
‘I’m 95, and suddenly a pop singer’
JTAApr 21, 2022
By Victor Wishna NEW YORK — Madeline Millman was just 17 when she took centerstage at the Adams Theatre in downtown Newark, NJ, stepping into the same spotlight where...
Documentary goes on ‘Fiddler’ journey
JNSApr 14, 2022
How did a non-Jewish director make one of the best Jewish films of all time? Did Frank Sinatra think he could play the part of Tevye? And why did Israeli prime ministers...
Princeton exhibit canceled
Andrew Lapin, JTAApr 07, 2022
Princeton University spent months planning an exhibit of 19th-century American Jewish art before cancelling the show because two of its featured artists had supported...
Mark Spitz still a household name
JNSMar 24, 2022
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in...
DJDS are division champs
Steve MarkMar 10, 2022
There’s a little ritual before each time the Tigers of Denver Jewish Day School take the basketball court.
Spices grown for quality — 300 specialized farmers
Shira Hanau, JTAMar 03, 2022
NEW YORK — Try to come up with the most Jewish spice out there and you might have some trouble answering. Ori Zohar and Ethan Frisch, the founders of the […]
$66.5 million NHL contract for Jewish kid from Long Island
JTAMar 03, 2022
The way NHL defenseman Adam Fox describes it, he was brought up like any other not-very-religious Jewish kid on Long Island.
Jewish high school senior makes first cut for ‘American Idol’
JTAMar 03, 2022
Could the next Jennifer Hudson or Kelly Clarkson be Danielle Finn, a senior at Los Angeles’ Shalhevet High School?
‘Maisel’ actress says you ‘don’t have to be it, to play it’
JTAFeb 17, 2022
When she was cast as Midge Maisel’s mother-in-law in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” veteran actress Caroline Aaron had no idea that a series about a very particular...
