Yair Hoffmann, 14, forfeited free trips to India and Slovakia to observe the Jewish days of mourning. (JTA) — A 14-year-old chess prodigy from Israel turned down free trips to India and Slovakia ...

On Tuesday, Orlin Goranov of Bulgarian National Television’s “The Last One Wins” posed a question to contestants on “who was the chess player with Jewish roots who nonetheless spoke out ha ...

As well as holding chess in high regard (he was honorary chairman of the Polish Chess Association), Piłsudski is also known to have deeply appreciated Jewish culture – even today, Jewish communities ...

A third of the medical faculty at Harvard is Jewish, as are nearly 40 per cent of history’s world chess champions. In 1954, New York State school tests revealed 28 students with IQs over 170.