A Smash Hit: The ‘Sandy Koufax Of Ping Pong’ Now A Children’s Book Star

A new picture book is telling the story of a girl who takes her Jewish faith into her own hands, one swing of a plastic white ball at a time. “Ping-Pong Shabbat” recounts the true story of Estee Ackerman, a Modern Orthodox ping pong sensation from Long Island. At 11, Ackerman refused to play the final round of the U.S. National Ping Pong Championships because the match landed on Shabbat.

Jewish, Judaism, Sports, Women, womenSamuel Eli ShepherdSeptember 24, 2024Samuel Eli Shepherd, sports, books, table tennis, ping pong, sport, children's book, news, Jewish, Judaism, women, Yom Kippur, shabbatComment

‘Once Upon A Mattress’ — Which Started At A Jewish Summer Camp — Returns To Broadway

The show is a revival of the 1959 original, composed by Mary Rodgers and written by Marshall Barer, Jay Thompson and Dean Fuller. The new version, directed by Lear deBessonet, features an updated book by Amy Sherman-Palladino — perhaps best known in these pages for creating "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — that preserves the comedy and spunk of the original while updating the script to be more modern and gender-inclusive.

In Post-Catholic Ireland, The Emergence Of A New Kind Of Clergy

Ireland — once a bastion of Catholicism — has become a more secular, pluralistic nation. In the 2022 census, 14% of respondents reported having no religion, according to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland. That’s a rise of nearly 100,000 people since the 2016 census. With more Irish people moving away from organized religion, nonreligious weddings, have become increasingly common.

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