Israel’s loss to Puerto Rico could be a harbinger of what’s to come over the next two days.
After key plays for Team Israel, the Israeli pop song “Mahapecha Shel Simcha” (“A Revolution of Joy”) blasted from the speakers.
Strawberry, an eight-time MLB All-Star-turned-traveling-preacher, embarked on his first pilgrimage to Israel in 2018.
Team Israel is arguably the best embodiment of the WBC’s eligibility rules. To play in the WBC, a player does not need to have been born in or be an official citizen of the country he is playing for.
On top of death threats and slurs, Bloom has been called “an embarrassment to any torah-following Jew.”
Lerner was born and raised in Washington, DC to Orthodox Jewish parents.
A documentary had followed Team Israel’s Cinderella run in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, and the filmmakers wanted to make a sequel.
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