Howard Blas / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Howard Blas / JNS.org
US Postal Service Celebrates Hanukkah With ‘Forever’ Stamp
JNS.org - American Judaica artist Jeanette Kuvin Oren is well-known for her work in many media. She designs unique Torah mantles, ark curtains, chuppah wedding...
Plucked by New York Yankees, Eric Reyzelman is Off to Play Ball
JNS.org - If everything goes according to plan, Eric Reyzelman may become the most Jewishly connected and affiliated Major League baseball player in history. Of course,...
Israel’s Avdija Scores Better Basketball Season, Though Still Strives for Improvement on Court
JNS.org - Deni Avdija’s second NBA season with the Washington Wizards, which concluded on Sunday with a 124-108 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, ended much...
Avdija Adds Hanukkah Cheer to Strong Start of Basketball Season
JNS.org - Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija is proudly representing Israel and Judaism on and off the court. The 20-year-old Israeli is having a good second...
Israel’s Top-Ranked Cycling Team Makes Its Long-Awaited Homecoming
JNS.org - When Team Israel Start-Up Nation cyclist Guy Niv connects with his fellow riders, it usually requires flying from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Europe or...
For NBA’s Deni Avdija, Year Two Means Easing Back From Injuries and Into Game Mode
JNS.org - Basketball player Deni Avdija was the talk of the town in Israeli and Jewish circles last season. The 19-year-old Israeli was drafted No....
Jewish Players (Even an Israeli) Match Rackets at US Open
JNS.org - When Diego Schwartzman outlasted Kevin Anderson in Wednesday night’s rain-drenched match—requiring relocation from Louis Armstrong to Arthur Ashe Stadium mid-game—he became the identified...
‘Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat’? Paralympic Athletes Are Already Winners, Say Israelis
JNS.org - Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and the sports world, meet Pascale Bercovitch, Shraga Weinberg, Moran Samuel and Doron Shaziri. Olympians Biles and Osaka have...
‘Follow Team Israel:’ Headed for Tokyo, Hoping for Glory
JNS.org - Nearly 10 years ago, just before the 2012 London Olympics, new immigrants to Israel David Wiseman and Shari Wright-Pilo noticed a lack of...
Back to Baseball in Brooklyn and on to Tokyo for Team Israel
JNS.org - For Team Israel and members of the media who spent three tense, very exciting nights at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, NY, back...
Deni Avdija Out for Rest of Season With Ankle Injury
JNS.org - On Wednesday night, 2,133 lucky Washington Wizards fans saw their hometown team in-person at the Capitol One Arena for the first time this...
ESPN Host, Basketball Star Rosalyn Gold-Onwude Describes Israel’s Impact on Her Career
JNS.org - When Rosalyn Gold-Onwude was a college student at Stanford University, she participated on Birthright Israel. Several years later, she went on her second...
The Education of Deni Avdija on and Off the Court
JNS.org - Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks started Wednesday’s pre-game media session with great news for Israel’s Deni Avdija. The 6-foot-9-inch Israeli forward, drafted No....
Mr. Avdija Goes to Washington
JNS.org - Israel’s Deni Avdija recently moved from Israel to Washington, found an apartment, met with the media at a Washington Wizards press conference and ate...
