This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. Hello! The Paris Olympics are winding down — but not before some final key competitions this weekend. And since last week’s newsletter, Jewish and Israeli athletes won six more medals, including three golds.

The Jewish Sport Report: These sisters made Jewish Olympics history in Paris

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Medal table | Olympic schedule |How to watch | Olympic news. SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson has her gold at last. Richardson and the rest of Team USA’s 4x100 women’s relay team triumphed on Friday night, bringing home gold. The victory is the sweetest of prizes for Richardson, who had missed out on opportunities to win gold in both Tokyo and earlier in these Games. The team from Great Britain finished in the silver medal position, and Germany won bronze.

Paris Olympics: Sha'Carri Richardson wins her first gold as part of 4x100 relay

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Three Americans earned gold medals on Wednesday at the Olympic Games in Paris, two of them coming in unconventional fashion.

2024 Paris Olympics medal count: Where United States and every other country stands after Quincy Hall wins gold

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Vinesh Phogat of India, who was set to compete in gold-medal match, was disqualified after not making weight.

Olympic disqualification of gold medal hopeful exposes 'dark side' of women's wrestling

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Medal table | Olympic schedule |How to watch | Olympic news. The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee has appealed the results of the gymnastics floor routine at the Paris Games on behalf of gymnast Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, whom it believes should have been awarded a medal. The ROSC announced the appeal...

Paris Olympics: Romania files appeal, believes gymnast should be awarded bronze over USA's Jordan Chiles

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won Olympic gold in the Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-around final.Varfolomeev topped the rotations in hoop (36.300), ball (36.500) and clubs (36.350) and came second in the ribbon (33.700) to score a total 142.850 points.Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn won the silver with 140.600 points and Italy's 2023 World Championships silver medallist Sofia Raffaeli took the bronze medal with 136.300 points.Having made her senior debut in 2022, Varfolomeev earned her first world title in the clubs before becoming the youngest gymnast to achieve the feat of a clean sweep of four apparatus finals and the all-around title at the 2023 World Championships.

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev wins Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-round gold

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Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

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Actor Bob Denver, who passed away in 2005, will forever be remembered for his leading role on the classic 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Denver also played another famous TV character: the beatnik-type Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

TV's 'Gilligan Island' Stars Dawn Wells and Bob Denver and Their Controversy Behind the Scenes

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Black excellence was at the forefront of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Black Athletes Who've Earned Medals At 2024 Paris Olympics

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Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — China took gold in the artistic swimming team event Wednesday night at the Paris Olympics, with the United States getting silver and Spain taking bronze. China dominated in the absence of Russia, which...

China wins artistic swimming gold at Paris Olympics, where the sport moved forward without Russia

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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A group of American and Japanese figure skaters finally received their medals from the 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, two and half years after a doping scandal kept them from the podium in Beijing. Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Karen Chen, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbel, Zachary Donohue, Madison Chock, and Evan Bates received gold medals, up from silver, and their Japanese colleagues got silver medals, up from bronze, under the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Olympics. Their medals were delayed after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, then 15, won gold in 2022 after testing positive for a banned heart medication. The Court of Arbitration for Sport finally ruled against Valieva in January 2024 and stripped her of her medal, giving the gold to the U.S. skating team and silver to Japan. “My parents didn’t get to share the Beijing [men’s gold] medal with me so it’s cool to be able to have this alternative that now allows us to have a chance to have my family in attendance,” Nathan Chen told USA Today, adding that his “whole family” had traveled with him to Paris.Read it at NBC ChicagoRead more at The Daily Beast.

U.S. Figure Skaters Finally Receive Gold Medals From Beijing—in Paris

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Former child star Bobby Buntrock's life ended in tragedy. Best known as Harold “Sport” Baxter on the popular 1960s TV sitcom Hazel, Butrock died at only 21 years old in a car accident in 1974.

The Tragic Death of Child Star Bobby Buntrock, and How TV's 'Hazel' Shirley Booth Protected him

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Florida’s buffet lovers are in for a shocker as the popular Royal Sushi Buffet & Hibachi in Port Richey has been temporarily shut down following a state inspection. This isn’t the first time the eatery has faced such trouble, but the recent closure has sparked quite a buzz among its loyal patrons and food enthusiasts alike.

Live roaches, flying objects in the kitchen and soiled shelves- Buffet closed again in Florida

Medal table | Olympic schedule |How to watch | Olympic news. While several Americans dominated on the track on Thursday, Team USA just barely survived a scare on the basketball court on Thursday afternoon that nearly ended what’s been a dominant run in the sport. From several medal runs...

2024 Olympics Day 13 results: Team USA rallies to beat Serbia, Noah Lyles wins bronze despite COVID-19 diagnosis

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has issued a state of emergency in Northeast Florida and across much of the state as a tropical system appears almost certain to develop. The National Hurricane Center said Friday morning that a tropical wave has a 90% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression over the next seven days. Most models show it moving into the Gulf of Mexico and then coming ashore and crossing the state, possibly moving over Northeast Florida.

Tropical system is nearly certain to develop

He was a charismatic cross between big-screen legends Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, and small-screen music icon Ricky Nelson, but somehow Chad Everett, best known as Dr. Joe Gannon from classic TV's Medical Center (CBS, 1969-1976), never became the superstar he should have.

The Charismatic Life and Career and Tragic Death of TV's 'Medical Center' Star Chad Everett

Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz as her running mate this week answered one big question about her presidential campaign. But it raises another: What to do with the mezuzah that went up at her house?. In 2021, after Harris moved into the vice presidential residence, her husband Doug...

Doug Emhoff installed mezuzahs at the Vice President’s Residence. What happens to them when he moves out, or up?

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There are only a handful of days remaining on the 2024 Paris Olympics calendar with more than half of the Summer Games completed following Day 11 in France. Team USA has cemented its position as an athletic powerhouse with dominance from Nanterre to Paris. It would take an inexplicable run for even the closest nation to challenge Team USA for the most medals collected at these Summer Games.

2024 Paris Olympics: Team USA Steals Gold Medal Lead on Day 11

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All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics conclude on Sunday, and at least 15 Jewish athletes from the United States, Australia and Israel will return home with some new...

All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

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