Long Island table tennis player will miss Olympic trials due to religious beliefs

Estee Ackerman, who is Orthodox Jewish, currently is playing in Israel. She was willing to fly back to New York and then to the trials in Santa Monica, California, if the governing body had agreed to make certain shifts in its round-robin tournament. Ackerman would have been able to play Friday until about 5 p.m. and resume at about 6 p.m ...