Terror at a Jordanian Church
Friday’s attack could have repercussions on both sides of the river.
October 26, 2026
Meet Chick Levy.
Long before Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, African Americans played professional baseball in separate Negro Leagues. In the 1920s, one of the most outstanding players of those teams was Oscar Levis, a/k/a Chick Levy. He was, as his name suggests, a Jew. Zachary Kranc writes:
Friday’s attack could have repercussions on both sides of the river.
But don’t expect radical change.
Three possible outcomes.
Meet Chick Levy.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik treasured the individual, yet understood him as part of a community of the living and the dead.
Long before Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, African Americans played professional baseball in separate Negro Leagues. In the 1920s, one of the most outstanding players of those teams was Oscar Levis, a/k/a Chick Levy. He was, as his name suggests, a Jew. Zachary Kranc writes:
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