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Updated March 5 ast 7:35 a.m.
The nationally ranked No. 19 Yeshiva University men's basketball team's season came to an end on March 4, as the Maccabees (25-4) lost 63-59 to the No. 10 Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins University, in the firest round of the NCAA Division III tournament at the Stockton University Sports Center in Glassboro, New Jersey.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/3/22
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The Yeshivas University men’s basketball team is returning to the NCAA Division III tournament as the No. 20 nationally ranked Maccabees stormed through the Skyline Conference playoffs with three consecutive wins punctuated by their 74-40 victory over No. 4 seeded Manhattanville on Sunday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/27/22
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We could begin with the end of the 50-game winning streak, or that No. 1-ranked Yeshiva University was thoroughly outplayed in the first half of its Dec. 30 contest against No. 4 Illinois Wesleyan, or that, sooner or later, the Maccabees were going to lose — or the philosophy that it’s better to drop a game in December than in the conference playoffs and the Division III tournament.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/6/22
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You could say it is because she is 5-foot-11 that Woodmere resident Daniella Rothman plays basketball. Or it is because her mother, Hilary, played in school and continues to show her hoops chops every Tuesday night competing against contemporaries or is it the one-on-one games she plays against her father, Eric.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/16/21
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It was a day game on the Sunday, Nov. 28, that was the first night of Hanukkah. The Yeshiva University Maccabees, named for the ancient Hebrew family that led to the miracle of what became the eight-day Jewish holiday, won their eighth game of the season, their 44th consecutive victory (44 candles are lit during Hanukkah), a 78-56 win over Manhattanville behind the 51-point performance by senior guard Ryan Turell. A new school record.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/1/21
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A huge swath of the outside play area was covered with folding chairs, the basketball hoop poles were decorated with balloons and the dais ran half the length of one side as Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, an Orthodox Jewish boys only school, celebrated a groundbreaking of a new building and the street dedication for its founder on Nov. 21.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/26/21
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A lifelong Woodmere resident who is the son and grandson of coaches and played basketball at Yeshiva University now leads his alma mater men’s team — a squad with a No. 2 ranking in …
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/18/21
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A half dozen students who attend schools in the Five Towns were highlighted for their achievements in and out of the classroom at State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s Star Awards ceremony at the Rockville Centre Recreation Center on May 23.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/24/21
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For Lawrence native Gabriel Leifer, choosing to focus on basketball instead of playing floor hockey in seventh grade, at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (now in Woodmere), was like winning the lottery.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/21/21
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The dilemma for Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva high School for Boys in Woodmere was how to host its annual open without being able to parents and students to the Ibsen Street building. Solution: Bring the building to them.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/18/20
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