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• Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein reports from his travels that while the problem of pluralism and gender discrimination in Israel gets little attention among Israelis, it is very important to Diaspora Jews. [Haaretz]
• Some former Obama supporters among Orthodox Jews are feeling buyer’s remorse. [The Jewish Star/Failed Messiah]
• The Dubai police commissioner pledged to seek ...

In an online poll conducted by card-producing company Jewish Major Leaguers, Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis was voted the best Jewish baseball player of the last decade. Shawn Green, who played his best years with the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers, got second place, while Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun finished third.
A ...

They don’t make ‘em like Rodney Lester anymore. Lester, who died Sunday at 98, had all the bona fides of what was exceptional about his generation of American Jews: a Brooklyn-born grandson of immigrants, he was a left-wing journalist whose only political obsession was civil rights, and whose only real obsession was baseball. His perch ...

The Jewish Chronicle solicits nominations, but not before making a few of its own. Israelis Yossi Benayoun, a soccer star, and Arik Ze’evi, a gold-medal- winning judo fighter, are mentioned; so is Jason Lezak, the American gold-medal-winning swimmer.
But maybe the most compelling candidate, whom the JC does not mention, is for Kevin Youkilis. In the ...

When I first arrived in New York, a decade ago last month, a friend took me to see his favorite team play ball. I was about to witness, he promised, a towering sports franchise, a baseball dynasty both majestic and magical. I was in, he said, for years of proud moments. I was new in ...

• A blogger notes that toymaker Playmobil’s new Egyptian-themed set doesn’t include any Israelite slaves, and that the company has previously issued a line of armed Roman soldiers; she smells a conspiracy in the company’s German origin, but she might be placated to know that Playmobil sued a creative pastor for the crucifixion of one ...

Ronan Tynan is the guy who sings “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium—and a Paralympic gold-medalist, a former member of the Irish Tenors, and a devout enough Catholic to have performed at the installation of New York’s new archbishop, Timothy Dolan, earlier this year. (He also sang Ave Maria at Ronald ...

• Former Knesset chef Ouri Nidam is now a purveyor of kosher food at Yankee Stadium; he knows more about cholent than he does about baseball’s biggest stars, who he has failed to recognize on at least one occasion. [Haaretz]
• At the risk of hurting our brains with more poll results, Gallup reveals that American ...

• A project called Dignity Return is being planned to exhume the remains of Jews buried in mass graves during the Holocaust and give them each a proper Jewish burial. [JTA]
• Holland will prosecute an Arab group for publishing a Holocaust-denying cartoon; the group claims it was a test of the double standard evinced by ...

A potentially pivotal game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox has been suddenly rescheduled, and now begins at 8 p.m. on the night before Yom Kippur. The change—motivated by ESPN’s desire to broadcast the match-up as Sunday Night Baseball—prompts the all-important question: will star Red Sox first baseman and Most Famous Current ...