A jersey worn by the legendary Babe Ruth has sold at auction for a record $5.64 million, Hunt Auctions announced on Saturday.
The previous record for a piece of sports memorabilia was a 1920 Ruth jersey that sold for $4.4 million in 2012, according the auctioneers.
The jersey, worn by Ruth sometime from 1928-30, was authenticated by SGC.
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Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is viewed skeptically back in her Queens and Bronx 14th Congressional District, according to a new door-to-door survey.
The poll found that she has a low 21% favorability rating, that just 11% believe she has their best interests in mind, and that only 13% would vote to reelect her.
The survey of registered voters was conducted by the political action committee targeting her with a Federal Election Commission complaint, Stop The AOC PAC.
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Has the former Democratic congressman from Ohio insisted on an establishment centrism that's quickly disappearing in the Jewish world and beyond, or is he safeguarding pluralism?

Orthodox rabbi and 20-year-old said they were harassed in Dussledorf and Berlin

Dusseldorf – An Orthodox rabbi and a 20-year-old man, both wearing kippahs, were subjected to anti-Semitic slurs in separate incidents in Germany. The rabbi was targeted Monday night in Dusseldorf and the young man on Sunday night. In Dusseldorf, Rabbi Chaim Barkahn told the German news agency dpa that he was insulted with anti-Semitic slurs [...]

Israel on Tuesday partially reopened fishing zones to Gaza Strip fishermen, a week after imposing a naval blockade due to the continued scourge of arson balloons targeting Israeli agricultural lands.
The local Fishermen Committee announced that at 10:00 am an area up to 10 nautical miles would be opened off of the Gaza coast.
In the northern Gaza Strip, the coast would only be opened to 6 nautical miles, keeping with Israeli policy to impose stricter restrictions near the shared border with Israel.
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A truck traveling on Route 4 southbound adjacent to Bnei Brak, struck the bottom portion of the concrete on the Coca Cola Bridge on Tuesday morning, resulting in damage to the concrete.

Secretary of state says Trump isn't looking for war with Iran, but American military ready to respond to any attack on US interests

Immigration New Zealand, an official government website, published a fact sheet with a map of the Middle East that showed a “Palestine,” but not Israel.
Following a barrage of complaints on social media, the web page was removed, though screenshots remain.
The Israel Institute of New Zealand called for a retraction of the map.
“The most immediately obvious of the errors was a map labeling the whole of modern-day Israel as ‘Palestine,’” said the institute’s director, Ashley Church. “This is incredibly offensive and the equivalent of New Zealand Immigration displaying a map of the UK which removed Scotland and Wales and referred to the entirety of the British Isles as England.”