The Annual Jewish Baseball Challenge
As with all walks of life, choices define who we are and what we stand for. Yearly, Jewish baseball players are faced with the difficult choice of observing Yom Kippur or October baseball as the playoffs heat up. Back in the day this choice came to define Hank Greenberg’s laudable dedication to his faith. In an October article in popular Hollywood news site, The Wrap, Aviva Kempner unravels the issue in our current sports and religious society and looks for a path forward to make it simpler for Jewish athletes to practice their religion while still playing ball, thus “covering all their bases.”