The head coach for the Israeli track and field team, Amitzur Shapira began his sports career as a short distance runner and long jumper in the 1950s. Born in 1932 in Tel Aviv, Shapira became an instructor at the Orde Wingate Institute, Israel’s national center for physical education, in Netanya. He moved to Herzilya with his wife and four children. By 1972, the 40-year-old had trained 10 of Israel’s best athletes. He discovered Olympian Esther Shahamorov-Roth when she was only 14, and she became his …More

The role of Tevye the milkman has seeped so deep into the public consciousness, it borders on caricature. Indeed, the name Tevye has become a vernacular term used to describe anyone looking overtly Jewish, the word Anatevka a stand-in for any shtetl, anywhere. The reason for this is arguably the success of the play-turned-musical, a tale every man, woman and child can sing along to, regardless of their religion. The ubiquity of “Fiddler on the Roof” has given its ownership to the collective—we …More