Best ‘Jews in the News’ item this issue: Our own Miriam Gabriel, golfer extraordinaire, won the Match Play tournament at Pine Hills Golf and Country Club in Manorville. According to Adrianne Greenberg, a pretty nifty golfer herself, the championship was a three-step challenge: Miriam first had to qualify. Then, she won the semifinals. And on July 9, “she trounced her opponent,” Adrianne said, for the big win.

[Miriam is co-editor of The Shofar, and this editor’s golf mentor. During a round with her at Par 3 in Cutchogue, after sinking a long putt and feeling pretty full of myself, I boasted that one of these days, I’d best her after nine holes. What are the chances? Her golf just gets better and better. And mine…]