I stumbled across a book awhile ago called The Baseball Talmud. So I reached out to the author Howard Megdal. He is a very funny guy as you will see from his interview. There is a link to the book’s Amazon page below, as well as on the side of the blog. Enjoy. Interview: The…

Right around the time TGR started I saw an article about a Jewish baseball blog. I went an visited the site called jewsinbaseball.blogspot.com. It was awesome. So I reached out to its creator Josh Borenstein for an interview to find out about his blog and every Jewish baseball player present and future. I must say…

As I have stated before on this website I love wrestling. So much so that I tracked done former WCW Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page. He agreed to do an interview for The Great Rabbino. First Piper does the video and now DDP gives an interview (maybe I should start a wrestling blog). Anyway, here…

While I was in high school Sports Illustrated ran a story about the “Jewish Jordan.” The man under that nickname is Tamir Goodman. Goodman got tons of publicity due to his scholarship to Maryland to play ball even if it meant not playing on Shabbat. Eventually, Goodman went to Towson University to play D1 ball…

It has been 13 years since I graduated Solomon Schechter. There were many interesting people in my class. We had up and coming filmmaker Josh “Jish” Freed, business mogul Marc Fiedler, and the future Mr. Sarah Hoffman, Nat Sager. But the most famous of us all was Dov Grumet-Morris. And even back in our Saved…

The Great Rabbino: Hey Maiya so glad you agreed to have TGR do an article on you and the team. I miss playing Shabbos softball with you. Maiya: Thanks for asking me to take part! I love the blog. And I also miss Shabbat softball- it’s one of the big things I will miss about…