Jewish Family Service » sports http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Nazi Olympics: Jewish Athletes (Part 1) http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/half-jewish/the-nazi-olympics-jewish-athletes-part-1-2 http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/half-jewish/the-nazi-olympics-jewish-athletes-part-1-2#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:13:48 +0000 admin http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/half-jewish/the-nazi-olympics-jewish-athletes-part-1-2

Part 1 of 2.

German Jewish athlete Margaret Lambert (Gretel Bergmann), Dr. George Eisen, and American Jewish ahtletes Milton Green and Marty Glickman reflect on the dilemmas facing Jewish athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympics.

To learn more about the 1936 Olympics, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/

Duration : 0:6:23


]]> http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/half-jewish/the-nazi-olympics-jewish-athletes-part-1-2/feed 5 “Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind” book trailer http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/jewish-books/blows-to-the-head-how-boxing-changed-my-mind-book-trailer http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/jewish-books/blows-to-the-head-how-boxing-changed-my-mind-book-trailer#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 02:42:31 +0000 admin http://www.jewishfamilyservice.net/jewish-books/blows-to-the-head-how-boxing-changed-my-mind-book-trailer

Video Book Trailer for Binnie Klein’s memoir, “Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind” (SUNY Press, 2010), the story of a middle-aged, Jewish, female psychotherapist who changed her sedentary life and took up boxing – this unlikely contender who had no previous experience with sports reconnected with her Jewish heritage, the history of Jewish boxers, the story of immigration, and experiences an unexpected transformation that proved that there ARE “second acts” in American lives

Duration : 0:2:23


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