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  • All of the Jewish NHL players to watch this season

    Evelyn Frick|Oct 14, 2022

    (JTA) — October is a busy month for U.S. sports fans. The MLB playoffs get underway, the NBA season begins, the NFL season kicks into high gear and both the women’s and men’s pro soccer leagues start their postseasons, too. Sometimes another milestone gets hidden under the headlines of it all: the start of the NHL season. The first puck drops on Friday, ironically in Prague, in a match between the Nashville Predators and the San Jose Sharks. (The first stateside games start on Tuesday night.) Another phenomenon that hasn’t been widely covered...

  • Season 2 of 'Russian Doll' promises to be even more Jewish

    Evelyn Frick|Apr 15, 2022

    In a few short weeks, the excruciating, pandemic-prolonged wait will be over: Season two of "Russian Doll" is finally dropping on Netflix on April 20, 2022. According to some new and exciting teasers, it seems that the wait will have been well worth it for Jewish fans. In a recent profile of Natasha Lyonne for the New Yorker, reporter Rachel Syme explains that some of the new "Russian Doll" will include time travel, writing: "Through seven episodes, parts of which were filmed on location in Buda...

  • These 3 hockey-playing Jewish brothers just made NHL history

    Evelyn Frick|Sep 3, 2021

    (JTA) - Talk about goals: Luke Hughes has become the third brother in his hockey-playing Jewish family to be drafted in the first round of the NHL Draft. The New Jersey Devils picked the 17-year-old defenseman fourth overall in Friday's selections, making the Hughes brothers of Orlando, Florida, the first American family to have three siblings drafted in the National Hockey League's first round. Jack, a center, was chosen first overall by the Devils in 2019 - earning the distinction as the...

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