September 23, 2013

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Interview with MN Fantasy Sports Expert Michael Kibort

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In 1980 a group of baseball enthusiasts met at a New York City restaurant called La Rotisserie. They created a game wherein they could “draft” Major League Baseball players onto imaginary teams, which would compete against each other using the players’ real-life game stats. This is widely regarded as the birth of fantasy sports as we know it. Today, fantasy sports is played by upwards of 32 million people in the U.S. and Canada and accounts for $3-4 billion in economic activity per year. While fantasy leagues exist for almost all major and semi-major sports, fantasy football has become easily the most popular. Temple of Aaron’s Rabbi Jeremy Fine interviewed a fantasy sports pioneer on personal sports site TheGreatRabbino.com. Below is his interview.

September 13, 2013

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Where Was Sandy? The Koufax Midrash

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n 1965 a story formulated that for many Jews is on par with biblical magic. The story states that on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar (to most Jews anyway), the greatest baseball pitcher of all-time, Sandy Koufax, put religion before baseball and sat out the first game of the World Series. Most Jews, baseball fans or people with access to the Internet have heard this story. Jewish religious school teachers always teach this story in their classrooms this time of year. But this article is not about whether Koufax pitched or did not pitch, we have an answer to that; the question is if Koufax was not on the mound on October 6th 1965, then where was he?

Rabbi Zalman Bendet

June 19, 2013

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To Forgive A Nazi

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Rabbi Zalman was asked whether we should forgive the alleged NE Minneapolis Nazi. This is what he said.

June 7, 2013

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The Fall Of JewBall

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While the ranks of Jewish basketball players continues to grow at both the high school and college level, the NBA bubble seems to have burst.

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