Harrison Bader, centerfielder for the New York Yankees had a large part in the defeat the New York Yankees handed to the Cleveland Guardians in the American League Division Series.

On August 2, 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals traded Bader and a player to be named later to the Yankees for pitcher Jordan Montgomery. On Sept. 20, Bader had his first New York Yankees hit, driving in a run. But then, in Game 1 of the division series, Bader hit his first New York Yankees homer, and also hit three home runs in the first four games of the series, joining Bernie Williams and Mickey Mantle as the only Yankee centerfielders with three homers in a single postseason. In July, Bader is committed to play for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic in Miami.

Harrison Bader is Jewish on his father’s side.

[Sadly, the New York Yankees lost the American Championship Series to the Houston Astros.]

Nir Bar Dea has been tapped as Bridgewater’s new co-CEO, one of two leaders of the world’s largest hedge fund, which manages $150 billion in assets.  He entered finance in 2015, starting at Bridgewater as a management associate, where he made his mark merging the research, portfolio construction, and trading departments into a single investment engine, which he ran beginning in 2019.

In February 2021, he was promoted to deputy CEO. In 2020, he was named in Fortune’s “40 Under 40 in Finance,” owing to his quick response to the coronavirus pandemic, when he relocated the firm’s investment engine office outdoors so that employees could work safely without losing the proximity of an in-person office.

Legendary basketball player Sue Bird bid farewell to the sport on Sept. 6 when her Seattle Storm lost to the Las Vegas Aces, who advanced to the WNBA Finals.

Bird, 41, announced in June that this season would be her last. In her final game, she finished with 8 points and 8 assists. Bird , the No.1 overall pick in the 2002 WNBA draft, is the league’s all-time assists leader and a 13-time All-Star.

She player her entire career with the Storm, where she has won four championships along with five selections to the All-WNBA first team and a record 12 All-Star Game appearances. She has also won a record-tying five Olympic basketball golds with Team USA, and was on four World Cup-winning teams.

“Not a lot of people do something for their entire lives the way that athletes do,” she said, pointing out it was the end of a sporting life that began when she was 5 or 6 years old. She looks forward to retirement, she said, noting “I get to start this new life.”

“Gatherings,” a retrospective of the work of Jewish American figurative artist Alex Katz, 95, will open in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Oct. 21 and run through Feb. 20, 2023. “Across eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz (b. 1927, Brooklyn, NY) has sought to capture visual experience in the present tense,” the museum said. “Katz has forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen.

The retrospective will include paintings, oil sketches, collage, drawings, prints, and freestanding “cutout” works. The exhibition will begin with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from the late 1940s, and will culminate in the immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years.

Shelley Greenspan, a policy advisor to the National Security Council and a former foreign affairs officer at the State Department, has been appointed liaison to the Jewish community. She takes over the position from Chanan Weissman, who served under President Biden and most recently traveled with the President on his trip to the Middle East that included Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The position of White House liaison to the Jewish community dates to the Carter administration and typically works on outreach to the Jewish community. Antisemitism has been growing globally and domestically. The Anti-Defamation League recorded a record-high 2,717 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in 2021. “I applaud President Biden for a continued commitment to the Jewish community,” said Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a Jewish member of Congress active on issues related to Israel, the Jewish community and antisemitism.

Allen H. Weisselberg, an accountant and one of Donald J. Trump’s most trusted lieutenants, admitted before Judge Juan Merchan in a Lower Manhattan courtroom on August 18 that he had conspired with the former president’s company to commit numerous crimes related to tax fraud.

Mr. Weisselberg’s guilty plea painted a damning picture of the company, which now faces significant financial penalties if it loses its own trial on similar charges.

Under the plea deal, Mr. Weisselberg must pay nearly $2 million in taxes, penalties and interest after accepting lavish off-the-books perks from Mr. Trump and his company, including leased Mercedes-Benz automobiles, an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and private tuition for his grandchildren. In exchange for testifying at a trial scheduled in October that names the Trump Organization as complicit in various tax schemes, Mr. Weisselberg is likely to receive a five-month jail sentence and, with time credited for good behavior, might serve as few as 100 days.

For nearly four years, Amy Spitalnick led the effort to hold organizers of the August 11, 2017, Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, legally liable for the violence of that day. Her effort paid off last year, when a jury found a group of white nationalists liable for $25 million in damages.

In November, Spitalnick, who is currently executive director of Integrity First for America, will become CEO of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, an organization that blends community organizing, political advocacy and leadership training about white nationalism and anti-Black racism.