Israel breaks record with six Olympic medals: Silver winner has Australian and South African parents

Israel won three medals at the Olympics on Saturday, including one gold, bringing to a record-breaking six the number of medals awarded to Israeli athletes at the world’s top sports competition. Read more

Olympic Shames

Olympiads and Jews do not have a gold medal relationship. Read more

Canoe superstar Fox riding emotions en route to Paris

Like the rapids she regularly conquers, Paris Olympics triple gold-medal threat Jessica Fox has recently faced some turbulent times. Read more

Turkey ban rules out Israeli wrestling team Olympics chances

The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) has barred a delegation of five wrestlers from flying to Istanbul for an Olympic qualifying event on May 9-13. Read more

Fox sisters aiming for Paris Olympic kayak double

Noemie Fox’s biggest rival might become her biggest weapon with the slalom kayaker working with her superstar big sister Jessica Fox to achieve her Olympic dream. Read more

Jessica Fox to seek key Olympic role

Jessica Fox is to stand for membership of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission while paddling for glory in Paris. Read more

Jessica Fox would be fitting Olympic flagbearer: Meares

Chef de Mission Anna Meares believes Jessiica Fox would make a model Olympic flagbearer but the champion canoeist has downplayed talk she could be chosen to lead Australia into Paris. Read more

Canoe slalom star Fox back in action at World Cup

Olympic canoe slalom champion Jessica Fox expects next year’s Paris Games to be her toughest yet, bracing for some “argy-bargy” as she targets three gold medals. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas and the Munich massacre: Time to face the truth

The families of the Israeli athletes massacred at the 1972 Munich Olympics have announced a boycott of an upcoming 50th-anniversary commemoration in Germany. Read more

Shameful yet not unexpected

During a long and eventful history, the Jewish People have encountered myriad shameful situations. Read more

No easy fix for Israel’s gold-medal civil marriage dilemma

It was an epic Olympic Games for Israel. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon….The Golden Medina. Read more

A piece of Olympic history

While the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are at their peak, and the Israeli delegation is achieving impressive results, a historic letter, dating back to 1952’s Olympic games in Helsinki in which the first Israeli delegation competed – has been found. Read more

Second judoka refuses to compete against Israeli opponent in Tokyo Olympics

A second judoka dropped out of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in order to avoid facing an opponent from Israel. Read more

Why some Jews leave a bare section on a wall on purpose?

Ask the rabbi…. Read more

Avishag Semberg takes bronze in taekwondo, Israel’s first-ever Olympic medal in the sport

Israeli athlete Avishag Semberg won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Saturday. Read more

Athletes Say NO to Antisemitism

To coincide with the Olympic Games, International March of the Living, Maccabi World Union and the Maccabiah are launching a global campaign to combat the exponential rise of antisemitism around the world.  Read more

Which Israeli athletes have a shot at the Olympic podium?

Israel is sending its largest-ever Olympic delegation of 89 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics set for July 23 to August 8. And we’re sending 32 athletes to Tokyo for the Paralympics from August 24 to September 5. Read more

After decades of IOC silence, slain Israeli Olympians headed for recognition

A memorial detailing the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre will be erected int hat city int me for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Read more

…and now for the relay

Steven Solomons, the 19-yr-old Sydney athlete who, beyond expectations, made it to the final of the 400m at the 2012 London Olympics is preparing for his next Olympic event…a member of the four man 4 x 400m relay. Read more

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Olympic 400m runner Steven Solomon has participated in his first Olympic opening ceremony… Read more

The Shtick’s One Minute’s Silence

Henry Greener produces The Shtick, a Melbourne-based video program dealing with contemporary Jewish themes. Watch his video interview with Rabbi Shmuli Block…and share a minute’s silence. Read more

NSW call for a minute’s silence

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and the Zionist Council of NSW have joined the call for a minute’s silence on the 40th anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Read more