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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – When the 2016 Olympic Games open in Brazil on Aug. 5, Israel will proudly show off its largest delegation ever, with 47 athletes competing in …
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MARCUS MORAES
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8/4/16
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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – When the 2016 Olympic Games open on Aug. 5, the eyes of the world will be on Rio – the first South American city to host the quadrennial …
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MARCUS MORAES
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8/4/16
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JTA – There are athletes, and then there are Olympic athletes. And then there are Jewish Olympic athletes.
When the 2016 Summer Olympics open Aug. 5, we’ll of course be cheering the American athletes – all 555 of them – and we’ll be rooting for Israel, too, which this year is sending its largest ever cohort to Rio.
But we’re saving a special shout-out for some of the Jewish-American Olympians who have given the Tribe extra reasons to be proud this year. (Interestingly, Jews make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population – and by our calculations, they’re represented by nearly the same proportion on Team USA.)
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GABE FRIEDMAN
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8/4/16
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