A16| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Weather
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi LoW Hi LoWToday Tomorrow Today TomorrowCity Hi Lo W Hi Lo WAnchorage 60 53 c 62 52 r
Atlanta 95 74 s 97 74 s
Austin 94 72 t 96 72 pc
Baltimore 92 72 pc 91 68 t
Boise 74 50 pc 78 56 s
Boston 8666pc 7158c
Burlington 83 56 pc 68 48 pc
Charlotte 93 69 s 95 69 s
Chicago 88 70 pc 86 69 t
Cleveland 89 69 pc 80 69 t
Dallas 93 77 s 95 76 pc
Denver 8350pc 7749s
Detroit 85 68 t 76 67 t
Honolulu 91 77 pc 90 77 pc
Houston 91 76 t 94 74 pc
Indianapolis 90 71 pc 90 72 s
Kansas City 89 72 s 84 59 t
Las Vegas 91 70 s 95 72 s
Little Rock 92 69 s 95 73 s
Los Angeles 80 64 pc 87 66 pc
Miami 90 80 pc 89 79 t
Milwaukee 78 64 t 76 66 t
Minneapolis 69 64 r 74 57 t
Nashville 95 73 s 96 74 s
New Orleans 94 79 pc 95 79 pc
New York City 87 71 pc 80 63 t
Oklahoma City 90 70 s 89 63 tOmaha 91 72 pc 80 57 pc
Orlando 90 75 pc 89 76 t
Philadelphia 92 73 pc 88 65 t
Phoenix 96 79 s 100 80 s
Pittsburgh 88 69 pc 81 67 t
Portland, Maine 81 60 pc 68 47 pc
Portland, Ore. 74 56 pc 81 62 pc
Sacramento 89 58 s 93 60 s
St. Louis 94 75 pc 93 73 s
Salt Lake City 67 50 sh 73 53 s
San Francisco 76 56 pc 82 57 pc
SantaFe 8048pc 8251s
Seattle 71 58 pc 77 61 c
Sioux Falls 79 67 t 73 54 t
Wash., D.C. 93 73 pc 93 70 tAmsterdam 64 55 sh 68 60 c
Athens 87 72 s 87 71 s
Baghdad 103 73 s 104 73 s
Bangkok 90 78 t 92 77 pc
Beijing 76 62 c 78 62 pc
Berlin 72 56 pc 71 56 pc
Brussels 64 59 pc 72 59 c
Buenos Aires 60 39 c 66 42 s
Dubai 106 85 s 105 88 s
Dublin 63 52 pc 67 45 r
Edinburgh 63 49 pc 61 47 rFrankfurt 72 55 s 74 54 pc
Geneva 73 52 s 75 55 pc
Havana 90 74 t 89 72 t
Hong Kong 90 81 t 91 82 t
Istanbul 82 70 s 82 70 c
Jakarta 93 72 s 91 73 pc
Jerusalem 82 64 s 81 64 s
Johannesburg 80 53 s 79 53 s
London 72 55 pc 74 55 c
Madrid 80 57 s 86 63 s
Manila 86 78 t 87 77 sh
Melbourne 69 54 s 63 44 sh
Mexico City 76 57 t 73 55 t
Milan 79 57 pc 82 59 pc
Moscow 78 52 c 76 55 pc
Mumbai 86 79 sh 86 79 sh
Paris 73 60 pc 76 59 c
Rio de Janeiro 87 74 s 92 72 pc
Riyadh 105 76 s 105 76 s
Rome 83 59 pc 84 62 pc
San Juan 88 79 pc 90 79 pc
Seoul 79 67 pc 77 63 sh
Shanghai 91 76 pc 87 74 pc
Singapore 91 80 pc 91 79 pc
Sydney 67 48 s 78 55 c
Taipei City 94 80 pc 93 78 s
Tokyo 8678pc 8469pc
Toronto 8357pc 6756pc
Vancouver 69 57 pc 66 57 r
Warsaw 7453pc 7454pc
Zurich 72 50 pc 74 50 pcToday TomorrowU.S. Forecasts
International
City Hi LoW Hi LoWs...sunny; pc... partly cloudy; c...cloudy; sh...showers;
t...t’storms; r...rain; sf...snow flurries; sn...snow; i...ice
Today TomorrowWarmColdStationaryShowersRainT-stormsSnowFlurriesIce<
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100+l
AAAhhJacksonvilleLittle RockCharlotteLouL illPittsbhgew Ykt Lake CityLake CLLLkCTampph ill
MemphishiCyDll
PPortlandanldAA tew l
tSan Diego PhLos AngeA lLas
Vegattlps/s/.Pau..LouLCCCh ghhington D.C.gton D CtCharlesCh l tkrtfordhitdd pCC ddAtikAlbbqqhkhoma CityCityan Antonioes iouxJack BirminghamihCChy Phhil d l hih lpaFColorC d
pPierreh d
lighhTucAbanybanybTopekaColumbiaCl bAAAgFt. thgSprinpgfi ldbilTTTipVV CalgarydtHonolulu
AnchorageJacksonvilleLittle RockCharlotteLouisvillePittsburghNew YorkSalt Lake CityTampaNashville
MemphisDetroitKansas
CityDallas
El PasoBillings
PortlandMiamiSan FranciscoSacramentoOrlandoAtlantaNew Orleans
HoustonSan Diego PhoenixLos AngelesLas
VegasSeattleBoiseDenverMpls./St. PaulSt. LouisChicagoWashington D.C.BostonCharlestonMilwaukeeHartfordWichitaIndianapolisClevelandBuffaloAustinHelena
BismarckAlbuquerqueOmahaOklahoma CitySan AntonioDes MoinesSioux FallsJacksonBirminghamCheyenne Philadelphia
RenoSanta FeColorado
SpringsPierreRichmond
RaleighTucsonAlbanyTopekaColumbiaAugustaFt. WorthEugeneSpringfieldMobileTorontoOttawaMontrealWinnipegVancouver CalgaryEdmonton70s80s
60s50s90s 90s
90s90s80s80s 80s80s 80s80s70s70s60s
60s60s60s60s60s60s50s50s50s50s50s40s40s80sPRE FIXES| By John-Clark Levin & Jeff Chen
Across
1 Paving stone
5 Rush order
letters
9 Source of peat
13 Shred
15 Many a
historical novel
16 Not suckered
by
17 Assignment
given to a
po’ boy?
19 Brand of
foam-based
toys
20 Fleet
21 Hasbro toy that
players twist
and pull
22 Spiny lizards
25 “Jailhouse
Rock” singer,
familiarly27 Work of a
full-time
contortionist?
29 Objective
30 Love ofParis
31 Spy who
works for a
Washington
paper?
38 Tourist spot in
the Tyrrhenian
Sea
39 Dickens’s “___
Mutual Friend”
41 Bacteria
growing in the
kitchen?
47 Wearing a
9-Down,
perhaps
48 Boomer born in
1961
49 In an unfriendly
manner50 Mountain face
climbed by Alex
Honnold in “Free
Solo,” for short
51 Like a wolf
without a pack
52 Golf course?
57 Go-getter
58 Word that’s
ironically a
trochee
59 Civilization
whose cities
included Ur
and Kish
60 Name written
on Woody’s
shoe in “Toy
Story”
61 Some do
push-ups
62 It began as the
National Gallery
of British ArtTheWSJDailyCrossword |Edited by Mike Shenk
1234 5678 9101112
13 14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21
22 23 24 25 26
27 28
29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46
47 48
49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56
57 58 59
60 61 62Previous Puzzle’s Solutions
Solve this puzzle online and discuss it at WSJ.com/Puzzles.GLAM SLOB READ
RAV I PHOTO EYRE
IMIN RUNTO FETE
NAV I GAT I ONBUOY
MAY S Y E P
ICEAGE SHOELESS
BUMPERRA I LS NAW
MR I ROA L D E TA
PIG RUMBLESTRIP
CORSAGES NOI SES
ACC TOUT
STAYINYOURLANE
AK I N GEORG ETAL
PINT EARTH IOTA
EDGY TREE XMENDown
1 Univ. applicants,
typically
2 Miller’s
“Elementary”
co-star
3 BOLO kin
4 Unfair judgment,
informally
5 Birthplace of
St. Clare
6 Not just implied
7 Back in time
8 Sweeping shot
9 Revealing
swimsuit
10 Strike leader?
11 Fiddle feature
12 What “GIF”
should be
pronounced with,
according to its
inventor
14 Focus of a player
on the bench
18 De-stressing
destinations
21 “John Brown’s
Body” poet
22 Hoppy brew, for
short
23 Effective control
24 Man of Milano
25 Wedding cake
section
26 Oaxaca greeting
28 Belonging to
those folks32 Dishwashing
room at Downton
Abbey
33 Chief justice who
authored the
Dred Scott ruling
34 Elects
35 What only three
sitting sens. have
become
36 Part of RSVP
37 Currency of 19
nations
40 Stimpy’s cartoon
pal
41 Place to get
wings?
42 Chimed in
43 Gossip mag
subjects
44 Cutter initials
45 Pants-on-fire
types
46 Submit, in the
ring
47 Swinton of
“Doctor Strange”
50 Humorist
Bombeck
52 “I’m five minutes
away,” often
53 Galley
implement
54 Keanu courted
her in “Dangerous
Liaisons”
55 Bring in
56 He’s more than a
masterofrapBYJAREDDIAMONDIsraeli Baseball: Now Starring Actual Israelis
A group of Jewish-American players became citizens to help the country qualify for the Tokyo Olympics
Joey Wagman, above, and
Blake Gailen, below left,
are among the players
trying to help Team Israel
qualify for next summer’s
Tokyo Olympics.FROM TOP: MARGO SUGARMAN (2); KAZUHIRO NOGI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESSPORTS
T
he underdog Israeli
team that emerged as a
sensation at the 2017
World Baseball Classic
came with an asterisk.
Despite the name of the country
splashed across their uniforms, al-
most none of the players who
helped upset powerhouses like
South Korea, Chinese Taipei and
Cuba were actually Israeli. Instead,
the roster featured a collection of
Americans participating under the
tournament’s heritage rule, which
granted eligibility to anybody with
a Jewish grandparent or spouse.
Buoyed by that unexpected suc-
cess, Israel now hopes to earn a
spot in the Tokyo Olympics next
year, with baseball returning to the
program for the first time since- Unlike the WBC, the Olympic
Charter requires all athletes to be
a national of the country they rep-
resent—a problem, since only
about 1,000 people play baseball in
Israel.
So Israel found a solution: Over
the past year, more than a dozen
Jewish-American professional ball-
players have obtained Israeli citi-
zenship under the nation’s Law of
Return, a process known as mak-
ing aliyah —Hebrew for “ascent.”
With their help, Israel is one of 12
teams currently playing in the Eu-
ropean championship, with the top
five advancing to the Olympic
qualifiers in Italy.
“Playing for us was the impetus
for this,” said Peter Kurz, the pres-
ident of the Israel Association of
Baseball. “But they all feel some-
thing toward Israel. There’s a feel-
ing among them that we’re doing
something different, doing some-
thing more. The WBC experience
was incredible. This could be even
bigger.”
Athletes often switch nationali-
ties to qualify for the Olympics, a
controversial practice known as
“passport swapping.”
At the 2018 Winter Games in
Pyeongchang, South Korea, an esti-
mated 6% of the participants com-
peted for a country other than the
one of their birth. San Antonio
Spurs assistant coach Becky Ham-
mon, a basketball player from
South Dakota, played for Russia in
2008 and 2012, prompting U.S.
thought of himself as Jewish, de-
spite his family ties. Nonetheless,
he was so inspired by his experi-
ence playing for Team Israel two
years ago that he traveled to Tel
Aviv last October to finalize his
citizenship.
“When we started playing, I re-
alized, ‘Wow, this is slowly begin-
ning to mean more to me,’ ” Gailen
said. “I completely identify now. I
used to say, ‘Yeah, I have Jewish
bloodlines.’ Now it’s, ‘Yeah, I’m
Jewish.’ ”
Israel’s miraculous run to the
WBC quarterfinals solidified the
players’ feelings.
Several players, including those
who reached the major leagues,
called the tournament the most
significant baseball event of their
lives—an experience chronicled in
a new documentary, “Heading
Home: The Tale of Team Israel,”
which followed the team through-
out the WBC.
The players all knew the stereo-
types about Jewish athletes—in
the movie “Airplane!” when a char-
acter asks for some light reading,
the flight attendant gives her a
leaflet titled, “Famous Jewish
Sports Legends.”
Now all the players on a win-
ning baseball team had
just one thing in com-
mon: They all possessed
Jewish heritage, a fact
that conjured up emo-
tions and feelings they
didn’t realize existed
within them.
“I’ve played on other
baseball teams and
none had been that
close, so it wasn’t the
baseball player aspect,”
Baker said. “It’s that we
were all Jews repre-
senting Israel. That
common bond is why
we felt that connection,
and it obviously means
something.”
The players who
gained Israeli citizen-
ship will not need to re-
linquish their American
passports. They have
also aged out of Israel’s
conscription rules, a
fact that multiple players admitted
played a significant role to make
aliyah.
Pitcher Zack Weiss said that
when he told his family he in-
tended to become an Israeli citi-
zen, “My mother had to make sure
I didn’t owe them any military ser-
vice” before offering her blessing.
One player, former Mets pros-
pect Jeremy Wolf, did offer to
serve in the military if Israel
agreed to pay off his student debt.
Israel declined. Wolf, however, re-
cently signed a lease for an apart-
ment in Tel Aviv and will spend at
least the next year living in Israel
full-time. He doesn’t speak He-
brew, but, “Now is the time to do
something crazy,” the 25-year-old
Wolf said.leaguers have been allowed to play.
Before the WBC, the players’
connection to their religious roots
varied.
A few, like pitchers Jeremy Ble-
ich and Corey Baker, considered
their Judaism an integral part of
their identity. Others, like former
New York Mets utility man Ty
Kelly, grew up in mixed households
that celebrated elements of multi-
ple faiths. When Kelly started play-
ing Catholic Youth Organization
basketball in middle school, he
said, the Jewish side started to
fade out.
Meanwhile, some players held
only a tenuous connection to Juda-
ism before baseball. Blake Gailen, a
Triple-A outfielder in the Los An-
geles Dodgers organization, barelyover Britain on Tuesday, Israel
moved to 4-0 in the European
tournament, also beating the
Czech Republic, Sweden and Ger-
many. Still, the team’s road to To-
kyo almost certainly means going
through the Netherlands and Italy,
which have won the last 24 Euro-
pean championships, dating back
to 1969. Israel currently ranks No.
19 in the world, behind the Nether-
lands (8), Italy (16) and the Czech
Republic (18). Japan is at the top,
followed by the U.S.
Even if Israel does make it,
things get even tougher: Japan’s
professional baseball league plans
to suspend its season to allow its
top players to participate in the
Olympics. MLB will not do the
same, though in the past, minorcoach Anne Donovan to
publicly question her pa-
triotism.
But the freshly minted
Israeli baseball players
believe their decision to
make aliyah warrants a
more nuanced calculation,
given Israel’s role as not
just a geographic destina-
tion, but a spiritual
homeland.
“It might not be the
country we were born in,
but it represents so
much,” said pitcher Joey
Wagman, a former minor-
leaguer currently in the
independent leagues.
“We’re representing the entire
Jewish people.”
Israel’s road to the Olympics is
challenging. Only
six countries will
compete in the
tournament, with
Japan, the host
nation, already
claiming one of
the spots. Israel’s
best chance of
getting another
would be to ad-
vance from Ger-
many to the six-
team Olympic
qualifier in Italy
later this month
and win there.
With a 7-4 winwsj_20190911_a016_p2jw254000_0_a01600_1________xa2019.crop.pdf 1 11-Sep-19 06:04: