Interview: DraftStreet’s Michael Kibort

Its Sunday and while I am at physically at Religious school teaching kids, myself and many of the parents are mentally (or actually) checking and securing their fantasy lineups. Its football season where really not much else matters unless your baseball team is still alive or you grew up in a college town. A while…

Interview: MMA Fighter Marina Shafir

TGR runs plenty of stories on wrestling, usually pro wrestling. In fact, we expand to boxing from time to time with stories on various boxers like Yuri Foreman and Dmitry Salita. But meet Marina Shafir. One of the toughest women I know…well sort of know. She is a MMA fighter looking to make an impact….

Interview: Michigan QB Alex Swieca

We heard about this story a while back. Jewish kid makes Michigan football team. But his story is much more than being a great athlete. He was in Israel playing flag football before making it onto the Wolverine squad and no less as a quarterback. Did I mention he went to Orthodox high school. Thank…

Jewish Journal: Let’s Make it Kosher, Dog

Last week I was at Dodgers Stadium for the first time. While I think my wife is starting to take a liking to my hobby of traveling the country to see baseball stadiums, we found ourselves in an awkward situation. At Dodgers Stadium, which is in Los Angeles—the second-largest Jewish community in the United States—we…

Interview: Pro Wrestler AJ Kirsch

Last week we had to pull an article with Matt Striker. We apologize. But we went out and got a hold of AJ Kirsch who is making some noise himself. He is on the upward swing of his career. You might remember him from WWE’s Tough Enough with Stone Cold Steve Austin. He was also…

Interview: NBA Prospect Jake Cohen

A few years back we interviewed then NCAA newbie Jake Cohen. As the NCAA tournament came around and Davidson was about to shock the world (which they unfortunately didn’t) my phone blew up with friends texting about Cohen’s heritage. Cohen played great for the second year in a row and gained major attention. So the…