Jacob Gurvis

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Jacob Gurvis is JTA’s audience engagement Editor and sports reporter, based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Boston University, where he studied journalism, Jewish studies and political science. Jacob has written for The Boston Globe and The Beverly Hills Courier, and he produced an award-winning sports talk show in college.

From Jacob Gurvis

Seder plate

Empty chairs, mirrors and pomegranates: How Jews are bringing the Israel-Hamas war to their seder tables this Passover

By Jacob Gurvis April 17, 2024 3:56 pm

Ken Holtzman

Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78

By Jacob Gurvis April 15, 2024 9:15 pm

Eitan Levine

The Jewish Sport Report: A Jewish comedian makes his pitch for baseball history

By Jacob Gurvis April 12, 2024 3:30 pm

Seminar

How US Jewish summer camps are preparing to welcome Israeli staff — many fresh from war

By Jacob Gurvis April 9, 2024 4:02 pm

The Jewish Sport Report: Did Germany accidentally allow a Nazi symbol on its national soccer jersey?

By Jacob Gurvis April 5, 2024 4:00 pm

Zach Hyman and Domantas Sabonis

The Jewish Sport Report: 2024 is officially the year of Zach Hyman and Domantas Sabonis

By Jacob Gurvis March 29, 2024 3:30 pm

Israeli flags

Some Jewish summer camps are facing pressure to rethink — or even fully scrap — their Israel activities

By Jacob Gurvis March 29, 2024 2:52 pm

Lena Dunham

Jewish comedian Lena Dunham discovers her family’s Holocaust story on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’

By Jacob Gurvis March 29, 2024 1:22 pm

New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’

By Jacob Gurvis March 26, 2024 9:59 pm

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on campus and laments Israel-Hamas war deaths at USC ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors

By Jacob Gurvis March 25, 2024 9:11 pm

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