Red Sox prospect finds strength, purpose in Judaism
Alex Kranzler won’t play a role in the Boston Red Sox’ improbable playoff run this fall, but the 21-year-old right-handed pitcher could be in the organization’s long-term plans. Regardless of how his baseball career transpires, Kranzler delved deeper into his Jewish identity and faith during his junior (and final) season at Vanderbilt University in Nashville […]
Israeli duo propel New England Revolution soccer’s strong start
New England Revolution and Israeli National Team teammates Ilay Feingold and Dor Turgeman have found a warm welcome in Foxborough. “At almost every game, there are fans with Israeli flags and some of them speak Hebrew,” said Feingold, a 21-year-old center back/right back from Netanya who joined the Revolution last season. “It’s been very exciting, […]
Holliston’s Kirstein joins Jewish sports collective as charter member
Holliston native Maya Kirstein, a junior field hockey player for Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, became one of the 50 charter members of Tribe NIL, a Jewish college sports collective. NIL, which stands for Name, Image, Likeness, enables student-athletes to receive compensation from third parties for use of their name, image, or likeness in […]
Israeli teen continues basketball dreams at UMass Dartmouth
Dan Tsouri will be living his dream halfway across the world from his home of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, but only a few hours from his birthplace. Tsouri, an 18-year-old basketball player who recently signed with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men’s basketball team, grew up in the Tel Aviv suburbs. He was born on Long […]
First Israeli pitching coach in MLB began his coaching career on the Cape
A decade ago, Alon Leichman was the pitching coach for the Dennis-Yarmouth Red Sox, winners of the 2016 Cape Cod League Championship. “It was a nice experience, and we had a chance to play at Fenway Park,” said Leichman, now the lead pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies. Leichman’s meteoric and historic rise to become […]
Team Israel Lacrosse women bolstered in world tourney by trio with Mass. ties
Three Jewish former Division I college lacrosse players with Massachusetts ties – one Orthodox, one Conservative and one Reform – will represent Team Israel in the World Women’s Lacrosse Championships July 24 to Aug. 2 in Tokyo. The women are Racheli Levy-Smith, 22, of Worcester; Jackie Stoller, 26, of South Boston; and Ilana Kofman, 23, […]
Two Sharon sports icons to join International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The South Shore suburb of Sharon boasts of Lake Massapoag, Crescent Ridge Dairy, Revolutionary War hero Deborah Sampson and two 66-year-old Jewish sports icons who have somehow never met each other. It might happen soon for Sharon native and legendary college basketball coach Bruce Pearl and longtime Sharon resident Andre Tippett, a Pro Football Hall […]
All-American Feinberg leads ‘underdog’ Northeastern baseball
In true David-versus-Goliath fashion, the Northeastern University baseball team earned a 13-10 victory over defending national champion Louisiana State University at Skip Bertman Field in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the forefront of last month’s victory was Huskies redshirt senior outfielder Harrison Feinberg, a 23-year-old secular Jewish outfielder who was named First Team All-American last season. […]
From Jerusalem to the Boston Marathon
As Boston Marathon runner Lauren Robinson approached the finish line of this year’s race, she looked at the memorial honoring the victims of the Marathon bombings 13 years ago. It was a personal moment for Robinson: On the day of the bombings, April 15, 2013, she was a 13-year-old girl watching the marathon up close […]
Temple Emanu-El’s running rabbis
MARBLEHEAD — While running marathons was certainly not part of the job description when she applied for the job a couple of years ago, Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Jenn Mangold ran her second consecutive Boston Marathon during its 130th running on Patriot’s Day, April 20. Mangold, who has been rabbi at the temple for nearly two […]
