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Jewish Gymnasts
This list of Jewish athletes in sports contains athletes who are Jews, Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in sports. The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular society. Many Jewish people immigrated from the countries where they had faced persecution to the History of the Jews in the United States#Jewish immigration, United States or have made an Aliyah to the State of Israel. The criteria for inclusion in this list are: * 1–3 places winners at major international tournaments; * For team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues; or * Holders of past and current world records. Boldface denotes a current competitor. To be included in the list, one does not necessarily have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard Gerim, converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the Conversion to Judaism, long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Israel and Kingdom of Judah, Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.John Day (Old Testament scholar), John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 [48] 'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Alzado
Lyle Martin Alzado (April 3, 1949 – May 14, 1992) was an American professional American football, football player who was a defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play. Alzado played for the Denver Broncos, the Cleveland Browns, and finally the Los Angeles Raiders with whom he won a championship in Super Bowl XVIII. He was a three-time All-Pro and two-time Pro Bowl selection during his career of 15 years. Early life Alzado was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York (state), New York to an Italian-Spanish father, Maurice, and a Jewish mother with a Russians, Russian family background, Martha Sokolow Alzado. He followed Judaism."Lyle Alzado Hits Only on Sunday" Daytona Beach Sunday Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Curhan
Jake Curhan (born February 9, 1998) is an American professional football offensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears, and was a two-time Pac-12 honorable mention. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent following the 2021 NFL draft, debuted in the NFL that season, and started five games at right tackle while also playing in 10 other games as a rookie. Early life Curhan was born in Larkspur, California, about 16 miles north of San Francisco, and is Jewish. His father, Greg Curhan, had attended Dartmouth College, and his mother, Randi Curhan, had attended the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Corte Madera, in Marin County, California, with his parents and two older brothers. Every summer he went to a Jewish summer camp on the east coast of the United States. He played competitive travel basketball, and his mother recalls that because of his size: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outland Trophy
The Outland Trophy is awarded to the best college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ... interior lineman in the United States as adjudged by the Football Writers Association of America. It is named after John H. Outland. One of only a few players ever to be named an All-American at two positions, Outland garnered consensus All-America honors in 1898 as a tackle and consensus honors as a halfback in 1899. Outland had always contended that football tackles and guards deserved greater recognition and conceived the Outland Trophy as a means of providing this recognition. In 1988, Jimmy Ridlon was commissioned to design and sculpt the Outland Trophy. A member of the National College Football Awards Association, the award has become one of college football's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabe Carimi
Gabriel Andrew Carimi ( ; born June 13, 1988) is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). Carimi had 49 starts at left tackle in his four-year Wisconsin Badgers college career, which culminated at the 2011 Rose Bowl. He was awarded the 2010 Outland Trophy, as the nation's top collegiate interior lineman. He was also a unanimous All-American, and the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year. Carimi was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round, 29th overall pick, of the 2011 NFL draft. He began the 2011 season as the Bears' starting right tackle. Carimi was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on June 9, 2013, for the Buccaneers' 2014 6th round pick. He signed with the Atlanta Falcons in 2014, and played in all 16 games for them that season, making 7 starts. Early life Carimi was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. He attended Monona Grove High School in Monona, Wisconsin. He started there as a , freshman. He g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; , LCF) is a Professional gridiron football, professional Canadian football league in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions, with four teams in the East Division (CFL), East Division and five in the West Division (CFL), West Division. The CFL is the highest professional level of Canadian football in the world. The league is headquartered in Toronto. The CFL was officially established on January 19, 1958, upon the merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union or "Big Four" (founded in 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) (founded in March 1936). The Big Four was renamed the Eastern Football Conference in 1960, while the WIFU was renamed the Western Football Conference in 1961. , the league features a 21-week season (sport), regular season in which each team plays 18 games with 3 bye (sports), bye weeks. The season traditionally runs from mid-June to early November. Following the regular seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Cantor
Noah Cantor (born January 11, 1971) is a former football player in the Canadian Football League. Biography Cantor is Jewish. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Cantor played with the University of Saint Mary's Huskies from 1990 to 1994. He was signed as a free agent by the Toronto Argonauts on February 28, 2003. He re-signed with Toronto February 24, 2004. In 2006 he announced his retirement from the CFL on April 13, but returned from retirement and signed a contract with Toronto on August 10. On April 17, 2007, Cantor retired for a second time from the Argonauts to focus on the Vancouver hamburger restaurant chain that he co-owns, "Vera's Burger Shack." Amongst many of the achievements in his CFL career, Noah won four Grey Cup championships. The first two occurred in 1996/97 with the Toronto Argonauts, in his second and third seasons with both the team and in the league. The third championship came in his sixth season in the CFL, his third consecutive with the B.C Lions The BC Lions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Camarillo
Greg Camarillo ( ; born April 18, 1982) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Stanford. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2005. Camarillo also played for the Miami Dolphins. He is most notable for his game-winning 64-yard touchdown reception from Cleo Lemon against the Baltimore Ravens on December 16, 2007. The play won the Dolphins the game 22–16 in overtime and was the team's first win after thirteen consecutive losses to begin the year. It was also the only game the Dolphins won the entire season and allowed them to narrowly avoid becoming the first 0–16 team in NFL history (which was later achieved by the Detroit Lions in the 2008 season). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Braverman
Daniel Braverman (born September 28, 1993) is an American former professional football wide receiver and kick returner. He played college football at Western Michigan, and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the seventh round of the 2016 NFL draft. Early life Braverman was born in Miramar, Florida, grew up in South Florida, and is Jewish. His father, Jamie Braverman, played safety in 1977 on Lehigh University’s NCAA Division II national title team. Braverman played football and ran the 100 meter dash, the 4x100, and the 400 meters in track at University School of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was a two-time all- Broward County selection in football. He was among the fastest high school football players in South Florida, running the 40-yard dash in 4.47 seconds. College career Braverman played college football on scholarship for the Western Michigan Broncos in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). On September 8, 2012, Braverman scored h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Boren
Justin Matthew Boren (born April 28, 1988) is an American former professional American football, football Guard (American football), guard. Though a guard in the National Football League (NFL), Boren played both Guard (gridiron football), guard and Center (gridiron football), center during his high school football, high school and college football career. In high school, he was widely regarded as one of the top offensive linemen in the country and one of the top football prospects in the state of Ohio. He was selected to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and was a ''Parade (magazine), Parade'' All-American and an Associated Press All-Ohio selection. The son of 1982 Michigan Wolverines football team, 1982 and 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team, 1983 Michigan Wolverines Tackle (football move), tackles leader Mike Boren, Justin was widely recruited by the nation's top schools, including both his father's alma mater, the University of Michigan and its archrival, Ohio State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Bluethenthal
Arthur Bluethenthal, nicknamed "Bluey" (November 1, 1891 – June 5, 1918), was an All-American football player for Princeton University, who died in combat fighting for France in World War I. Early life The son of Leopold and Johanna Bluethenthal, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy prior to attending Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1913. American football career Player At Princeton University the 5′-9″, 186-pound Bluethenthal played center from 1910 to 1912. In 1911, he was named first team All-America by a number of newspapers, Walter Camp second team All-America, and first team All-East in a consensus of 28 newspapers. That year, the Tigers were 8–0–2, and yielded only 15 points the entire year. In 1912, Walter Camp selected him as third team All-America. Bluethenthal is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Coach After he graduated in 1912, Bluethenthal became the line coach for the Princeton Tigers, and then for the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Binn
David Aaron Binn (born February 6, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a long snapper for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 1994. He was the last remaining active member of the Chargers' Super Bowl XXIX team, as well as their infamous 2000 season, where they went 1–15. Early life Binn attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California, and was a letterwinner in football, basketball, and golf. In football, he was a two-time All-Peninsula Athletic League honoree. He then played college football as a linebacker and long snapper for the University of California, Berkeley. College career Binn attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he played in 42 games as a long snapper. He earned a BA degree in Ecology and Interdisciplinary Studies in 1995. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraterni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
