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This post’s title might be alarmist considering I am blogging about Olympic competition, not an act of violence. Still, I find myself just a bit alarmed that Israeli shooters are not the sharpest in the world. I think Jews, outside of Israel at least, like to mythologize the IDF and Israeli military prowess. Yet off […]

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During the first week of the Beijing Games, the media focused on the Iranian swimmer who skipped a race with an Israeli in the next lane, but not enough attention was paid to the historic handshakes that the entire men’s basketball team of Iran gave to a dual citizen American-Israeli Jew. That Jew was David […]

Jewish Olympian Jason Lezak surely has made his mark on U.S. Olympic swimming relay teams, notably with his unfathomable dash in the final 50 meters on Monday to lift the 4×100 men’s freestyle foursome to the gold medal in Beijing and a new world record. Now Lezak, at 32 the oldest male swimmer ever to […]

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