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Essay We Missed These Jewish Jocks. Do You Know Them? On Tuesday, Marc Tracy wrote about Jews in sports and Hollywood. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In the movie Airplane,… Marc Tracy November 15, 2012
Essay Sports Is Like Hollywood: They’re Both Jewish! Marc Tracy is the co-editor of the new book Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In… Marc Tracy November 13, 2012
Recommended Reading Jews and Baseball Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAttention World Series fans: Check out our “Jews and Baseball” reading list. Select titles are below, and the full list can be found… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 22, 2012
Nonfiction The Magnificent Seasons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports History and Uplifted a City and the Country Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
Nonfiction God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach Marc Bloom
Recommended Reading Olympic Fever Looking for a way to get ready for the Olympics? We have some sports titles to get your head in the game. Find the complete list here.The Cubs and the KabbalistPitching in… JBC Staff July 13, 2012
Nonfiction All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Century in Sports From Famed Washington Post Columnist Shirley Povich
Nonfiction Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
Essay Tisha B’Av and the Olympic Games Earlier this week, Dvora Meyers wrote about being an Orthodox Jewish gymnast and the designer of her book cover. She has been blogging here all week for… Dvora Meyers May 18, 2012
Essay A Nice Jewish Girl on the Balance Beam Dvora Meyers is the author of Heresy on the High Beam: Confessions of an Unbalanced Jewess. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Dvora Meyers May 14, 2012
Nonfiction Road To Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation Aili and Andres McConnon
