(JTA) — This season will officially be WNBA superstar Sue Bird’s last. The Jewish four-time league champion and five-time Olympic gold medalist announced Thursday that she would retire ...

No doubt because I once worked at a Jewish newspaper and have written a novel about a woman rabbi -- not to mention a work of nonfiction called "The Talmud and the Internet" -- I am sometimes ...

Bird, who served as the Team USA flag bearer in the opening ceremony and also holds Israeli citizenship in a basketball-motivated decision, is one of the most decorated Jewish athletes of all time.

For Jewish sports fans, 2022 was a year of very high highs and particularly low lows. The fall was dominated by an antisemitism scandal involving Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, who shared a link ...

Over the next 15 to 20 minutes, a succession of activists affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace and several other groups takes turns shouting, chanting, or questioning Biden whenever he tries to ...

She chafed at discriminatory remarks within her childhood Jewish community, even when they were unintentional, and struggled to feel at home. “I grew up in a Jewish reality, one that I didn’t really ...

Now, Bird is married to a Jewish woman -- the daughter of Holocaust survivors -- and they have raised their son in the Jewish tradition. Bird's latest book describes his experience "coming of age ...

The Jewish four-time league champion and five-time Olympic gold medalist announced Thursday that she would retire following the 2022 season. “I’ve decided this will be my final year,” Bird shared on ...