Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Jul 13, 2026
A news item I noticed a few days ago brought me back to my high school days...
A few days ago there was a report in the news that the World Cup is affecting the IDF fight against terror.
According to the news report, the World Cup, aka Mondial, competition/tournament that is ongoing is very popular in the Arab communities (this is well known and is not the point of the report or a surprise) and the Arab Muslim fighters against Israel, the terrorists are staying up late at night to watch the games, and then they sleep late in the morning. They are currently far more focused on the World Cup matches than on fighting.
The adjusted schedules of the terrorists has forced the IDF to adjust its schedule of activity and fighting.
The above has been reported about the fighting in Judea and Samaria, as well as in Gaza and in Lebanon. They might watch up to 4 matches a night and the are too tired in the morning to fight.
So how did this bring me back to high school?
I remember my 9th grade rebbi talking about us following baseball and other sports teams and he said that the baseball game is good for getting 40,000 goyim in the stadium and more tens of thousands watching on tv at home off the streets and not attacking or bothering the Jews. That is all it is good for.
I guess he is still right, even with Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists.
Maybe Israel's security forces should explore the possibility of creating additional global tournaments that will draw the attention and focus of the terrorists and we will have to spend less time and energy fighting them.
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Jun 9, 2026
WFAN Shabbos shiur for the Knicks (video)
getting a shiur on hilchos shabbos on WFAN... was that on your bingo card?
though I am surprised they didn't know the term shabbos goy...
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Apr 19, 2026
Ahavat Hashem Gordon dismantles Spanish opponent with huge knockout | Full fight (video)
and (if you watched to the very end you will see), he's a mentsch too!
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Dec 9, 2025
Interesting Psak: Fantasy Footbal coaches should not be witnesses
I have always been a fan and follower of various sports and teams, and when possible have also been pretty active in participaing in a variety of sports activities over the years... but I never got into the fatasy sports like Fantasy Football.. it just never interested me. I like sports but fantasy sports never seemed like being involved in sports.
And I guess it is a good thing. Until now I was not aware there was a halachic discussion about Fantasy Football and that it is such a big issue and debate in the frum community.
I just saw an article in JewishLink in which Rav Haim Jachter relates to some other articles on the issue and himself paskens that people who play Fantasy Football are not technically passul to be an eid, a witness, but such people should not be chosen lechatchila to be a witness.
Rav Jachter refers to recent public positions offered by Rav Yehuda Avner (probably not the aide to several Prime Ministers and auther) and Rav Rothwacs, so it seems to be a hot topic right now for whatever reason.
The issue is really about gambling and addiction, not fantasy football per se, but fantasy football is the manifestation of the gambling addiction that is currently under scrutiny in the frum community.
Rav Jachter refers to several poskim over the years that have taken strong positions against any form of gambling and the strong addiction that follows such involvement. You can read the articleif that interests you.
Besides for the psak of preferably not taking someone involved in Fantasy Football as a witness, the more interesting conclusion from the article to me is that sports is good clean fun, both competing in sports activities and also ffollowing sports and teams.
I am used to rabbis talking about sports, especially following sports while playing sports has the redeeming factor of health and fitness, as narishkeit, as something to keep the goyim busy and off the streets, as being a big waste of time. In this article he refers to Rav Avner who complains that novody just watches sports nowadays (I do) but people watching sports feel they need to place a bet on the game to make it mroe exciting... and then Rav Jachter himself wanes nostalgic about his growing up enjoying sports with his sister and father and not understanding how his mother did not and calls it a reasonable and often necessary outlet, a happy diversion, but then explains it should not become a sick obsession with people wasting lots of time on especially with fantasy sports that causes them to spend many housr watching games and keeping up with whats going on so they can construct their teams and whatnot...
so the psak is interesting, and the rabbinic nod to sports is refreshing
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Nov 4, 2024
Camel Races
This past Friday Israel hosted its first ever legal camel race. (source: TOI)
The race took place down south, in the Negev. With thousands of cheering spectators. I wonder if betting on the camels was allowed.
It seems like this is one of those theories of how to deal with [certain] crimes - legalize it and make it as safe as possible and collect tax money from it, or keep it illegal and dont collect tax money and allow it to remain unsafe and dangerous with likely cruelty to animal abuses as well. Camel races have been going on a long time, though only illegally. This is the first time it was done in a legal format. Maybe Israel decided legalizing it will better regulate it, since it is happening anyway, and make some tax revenue on it.
The camel races this past Friday were set for two distances - 12 kilometers and six kilometers for young camels, with prize money offered to the winning camels. The top prize was 12000nis.
Honestly, slightly disappointing - 12 kilometers isnt even a half marathon! The camels should have been able to do better than 12km.
They have turned this into a symbol of hope and coexistence, with both Bedouin and Jewish attendees. I am somewhat skeptical about this but if it makes them feel good about themselves, all the better. Peace and coexistence will be achieved when the Jews are not just among the spectators but also of owners of some of the competing camels.
Next time, if I find out about this in advance, I will plan to go.
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Jun 12, 2023
Tweet of the Day
#תרבות_ברמה
— רמה ד' - בית שמש (@ramadalet_bs) June 11, 2023
מיטב החדשות של בית שמש:
עם כדור ביד והרבה אמביציה התאספו אמש עשרות נשים חרדיות תושבות שכונת רמה ד' למשחק כדורסל ראשון במגרש הספורט החדש בשכונה.
"נשים יכולות לשחק כדורסל בלי לחרוג מגדרי ההלכה" הן אומרות בנחרצות,
"אנו קוראות לכל אחת שמתעניינת בכדורסל להצטרף אלינו". pic.twitter.com/7a63GdNkMm
From Meitav Hachadashot Bet Shemesh:
With ball in hand and a lot of ambition yesterday tens of Haredi women residents of RBS S gathered to play basketball for the first time in the new sports field in the neighborhood. Women can play basketball without violating the boundaries of halacha, they said resolutely. We call on every person who is interested in playing basketball to join us.
good for them. Dont let the thugs set the tone... I am increasingly getting the impression that RBS D is not nearly as extreme Haredi as it was made out to be and like in some other places in Bet Shemesh there just a small number of noisy extremist thugs who try to control everyone else and set their tones that make a bad impression...
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Dec 18, 2022
Interesting Psak: watch the World Cup or light Chanukah candles
The World Cup, aka Mondial, being played now in Qatar has presented an interesting question. Today's game will be the final, the premier, the biggest match of the tournament. Millions of people, some say over a billion people, have been watching the games until now and will watch today's game. The game is set to begin at 5pm, which is right about when we in Israel will be lighting Chanukah candles (some light at sunset which is 4:38 or so, and others light at tzeis which is 5:05). The dilemma many people seem to have is if they should light on time and miss the beginning of the game, should they delay lighting until a break in the game, should they light while watching - major problems. People just don't want to miss a nice portion of the game, a game that happens once every 4 years.
I have collected a variety of rabbinic statements with psak halacha relating to this issue, giving guidance and instruction (in no particular order).
1. Rav Dovid Karhi, rav of Moshav Zohar, along with the rav of Netivot Rav Pinchas Hacohen, and Rav Meir Mazuz, issued a letter stating that the worst thing people can do is delay lighting candles because of this game. It will also be pretty bad if people light the Chanukah candles with the television on and while watching the game. It will also be pretty bad for people to light quickly to get it out of the ay so they can rush to the game.
The best thing to do, the rabbonim say, is to light candles at 4:55pm, with the television off, hang out with the family by the candles explaining that the mitzvos are much more important than the vanities of this world, and the longer you sit by the candles before turning on the game the personal example set for the family will be that much stronger.
2. Kikar brings from Rav Meir Mazuz, who seems to have related to the issue independently from the letter above the same resolution of lighting at 4:55. Rav Mazuz explains that the Chanukah candle symbolizes our overpowering the Greeks, and Chanukah must come before the Mondial, at 4:55 lighting the candles and singing the songs calmly and with patience. The sufganiyot can be eaten later, even while watching the game - but the Chanukah lights and singing the songs that comes first.. He also speaks with derision about the sport itself and watching it, but we'll leave that as it is irrelevant for the discussion.
3. Kipa brings an interesting approach from Rav Chaim Navon in which he compares the situation to the beauty of the sport itself, saying that just like in the sport the players cannot just do whatever they want but have to compete within the boundaries of the time limitations and the rules such as not hitting each other and no using hands, so people of halacha also the beauty in the limitations within which we can act, such as when candle lighting time is rather than watching the game at that very moment, making it not just truth and faithfulness, but also beauty.
4. Rav Aviner says that lighting on time offers a broad swath of time in which it is allowed, as one can light as long as people in the house are awake and people are outside. But, it is better to light at the correct time and do it quickly rather than wait until later. Rav Aviner does think the Mondial is a waste of time but despite that, the rules of lighting apply.
5. Rav Avraham Stav says people should light at the correct time (tzeis) even if it means missing a few minutes of the game. If it is really difficult for someone he can light a few minutes earlier, as some light from the time of sunset anyway. Someone who will be leaving his house earlier to watch the game in a group at a different location should make sure to get home in time to light while people are still out and about in the area where he lives.
6. a rav asked Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi what to tell people - should people watch the game at home and light or should people watch with friends as they might prefer?
Rabbanit Mizrachi said that people should watch the game at home if possible and light the menora. Using a play on words from a Chanukah term about candle lighting she said, "Mondial Ish Ubeito". People are going to watch the game anyway, no matter what we say so better to at least tell them to watch at home rather than to tell them not to watch which they wont listen to
7.. Rav Ilai Ofran, rav of Kvutzat Yavneh, said this is a question he prefers not to answer, as it might be a social question or an educational matter, but it is not a halachic question. In halacha there is no such thing as an "important game". Not every question needs to be answered by a rabbi and a rabbi does not need to get involved in everything. Sometimes a rav can say, this isnt a question for me, you decide for yourself - leave me out of it.
source: Kipa,. for the last few)
Honestly, of all the answers I read (and there were others that I didnt bring because they were similar to approaches I did quote above), and they are all interesting, I happen to like Rav Ofran's approach the best. This isn't even really a question, and people can decide for themselves what they are going to do. A rav doesnt need to get involved in everything.
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Dec 5, 2022
more shomer shabbos athletes
Back in the day, religious Jews and pro sports just weren't synonymous. Today things might be different. It is getting less rare to see Orthodox Jews trying to make that move, and even if just to be good enough for consideration.
We have got a couple of Orthodox kids recently in the MLB draft, Ryan Turell in the NBA draft and now playing in the minor leagues, occasionally making a cool spin move in a game that makes it to a Youtube clip, and we have had some others like the young lady from Teaneck who is a master at Table Tennis, Beatie Deutsch the marathon runner, and others.
Now another two orthodox kids are in the rise in the sports world.
Sam Salz is the first Orthodox shomer shabbos young man to play college football. According to COLLive, Salz chose 39 as his uniform jersey number to be a reminder to him about adhering to the 39 melachos of Shabbos. Salz plays running back for Texas A&M, after playing High School football in Merion Pennsylvania. He says he has to sit out half the games because of Shabbos and for games that start after Shabbos he walks to the stadium.
Moriah Rimon, daughter of the famous Rav Tzvi Rimon (a leading Dati Leumi rav), is an international champion (bronze medal) in Taekwondo. She has been training and competing since 2nd grade and is currently performing her national service in Sherut Leumi working with kids at risk in Jerusalem.
Rimon says one of the greatest challenges for her in her sport is Shabbos. She does not compete on Shabbos and has to forgo many tournaments and competitions because of it.
Good luck to them all. It is going to be interesting to see them and others who will surely come along in time, navigate the challenges...
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Nov 9, 2022
Ryan Turell's G League debut (video)
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Nov 7, 2022
Sundays for Sports
MK Betzalel Smotritch (Hatzionut Hadatit) today commented on the fact that the soccer/football leagues in Israel all play their games on Shabbos, thus excluding many fans from going to or watching the games and enjoying the sport. Smotritch suggested moving league games to other days of the week to be inclusive of shomrei shabbos.
Interestingly, Smotritch's argument is not against chilul shabbos, but to include religious people who cant watch the games on Shabbos.
From what I have read in the past, games during the week (except for Thursday night) generally do not get great attendance. School and work nights are not conducive, it seems, for going to your favorite team's games.
I think the real solution that Smotritch should push for, since he raised the issue in the first place, is Sundays. Make Sunday a day off of work. Then religious people can do things on Sunday that they could not do on Shabbos - tiyulim, sports and many other activities. With Sunday being a workday, that is virtually impossible for most people, so Shabbos becomes the only day available (in addition to Thursday night to some extent). Sunday off would lower so much tension around Israel. People would not fight so much over Shabbos if they could do all those activities, or many of them, on Sunday. Make Sunday a non-work day and then the leagues playing on Sundays will attract many fans to the games.
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Aug 2, 2022
bowing out
We are used to hearing about Iranian athletes, and athletes form a few other countries hostile to Israel, bowing out of international competitions in order to avoid facing an Israeli competitor. It might be so as not to have to acknowledge anything official from Israel, it might be a form of protest, it might be an avoidance of indirect recognition of the State of Israel, and it might also be, even if just a bit, fear of losing to an Israeli and possibly facing a firing squad back home.
I think this, however, is a relatively new trend.
A Jordanian athlete, an athlete from a country with which we have a peace agreement and semi-decent relations and regional cooperation (even though it definitely has its up and downs) has now bowed out of a competition in order to avoid facing an Israeli competitor. She even gave up the potential of winning a bronze medal in an international tournament in Bulgaria rather than face an Israeli.
According to news reports, 13 year old Jordanian, Miassar al-Dakhamsha, refused to compete against an Israeli for the bronze medal in Taekwondo in the World Championships tournament in Bulgaria.
I dont know who won. I dont know if that was a forfeit and the Israeli got the bronze or if someone else moved up to compete. I tried (not too hard) to find results but didnt see anything. Whatever happened, if they dont want to fight the Israelis, more power to them. I wish diplomatically and politically the Arab countries would also bow out of fighting the Israelis, and hopefully militarily they will also just talk and bow out rather than come to fisticuffs...
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Jun 1, 2022
not the inspiring sports story that brought tears to your eyes
Haaretz has an interesting story about a young lady who couldnt play basketball on her team.
11 year old kibbutznik Ayala Lavin plays on the Hapoel Mateh Yehuda boys basketball team. The league allows girls to play on boys teams with some limitations.
In a game against Elitzur Efrat, the Efrat team protested her presence and said they wouldnt play against Hapoel Mateh Yehuda with Yamin on the court being that their team is made up of religious boys. Her coach called her aside and told her she would have to sit out the game.
The wrinkle in the story is that the league rules allow girls to play on the boys teams but with some limitations including it being dependent on the opposing team being ok with it. If however the opposing team protests for religious reasons, the girl cannot play but must sit out the game.
Elitzur Efrat was in the right, according to the rules of the league.
As an aside, the league is now being sued to scrap this rule and to treat girls and boys equally.
It seems to have been a shock because in a game between these two teams earlier in the season, the Efrat team played despite Yamin being on the court and lacing up and did not protest her presence. It seems the kids didnt care, but when some parents had found out about her participation in the game, after the fact, they got upset and made the decision that next time she would be told to sit.
This sounds like one of those sappy moments in the stories that you hear about how the team rallied around their disheartened teammate and bolstered her with support and said they would all refuse to play unless she can. Or the Efrat team saying we wont stop her form playing, this is our problem and we will forfeit. But that did not happen. And the rule allows for it.
The league has responded to similar complaints in the past saying the religious beliefs of its players must be respected. And they must be. But what about her and her team's beliefs? Do they also not deserve to be respected? And not just her beliefs - what about her herself -does she not deserve to be respected?
If the league is mixed, girls cant be told they cant play because someone else doesnt want them to. If girls are not going to be allowed to play at times, make it fully separate leagues, which is totally normal. If the league allows girls to play and in that sense it is a mixed league, even if only in a limited way, religion should not be used to hurt others. Heck, a team might not want to face her and make a bogus religious claim to force her to sit.
There are so many inspiring stories from all levels of sports of how athletes, especially young athletes, stood up for inclusivity, for standing up for the weaker, for doing the right thing as people with the desire to win remaining secondary to being good human beings. This is not one of them. And that's a shame.
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Feb 15, 2022
Jewish captain at the Super Bowl
check this out...
.@BillieJeanKing does the coin flip honors for #SBLVI!
— NFL (@NFL) February 13, 2022
📺: #SBLVI on NBC
📱: https://t.co/K02y40b5Nu pic.twitter.com/bzoOFsLmUd
honorary captains for the Super Bowl were youth football captains from various leagues. One of them is Elisheva Ferszt from YULA High School in Los Angeles, an Orthodox young lady who plays in Orthodox modest dress. They joined Billie Jean King who performed the toin coss. It must have been an exciting day for a young Jewish athlete!
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Hillel Interviews Ryan Turell, the First Observant Jew Headed to the NBA (video)
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Aug 2, 2021
conversion to Judaism through sports accomplishments
After Artem Dolgopyat won the gold medal yesterday representing Israel in the Olympics, his mother made a dramatic statement that caused a bit of a ruckus.
Artem's mother announced that while Artem is being celebrated as a national hero, he would not be able to get married in Israel as he is not Jewish. She publicized that Artem's father is Jewish but she, his mother, is not. Because Artem is not Jewish, he cannot get married in Israel as there is no arrangement for civil marriage here. He and his girlfriend would need to travel abroad to get married.
This caused a bit of a buzz. A national hero, someone has contributed so much to Israel and national pride but we won't consider him Jewish?
The correct answer, I think, is yes, we won't consider him Jewish. Being a good person, bringing in a gold medal, serving in the army is not a form of conversion. If he is not Jewish,he is not Jewish. We don't consider people Jewish just because they did good things for Israel. Maybe it can give special consideration in streamlining the process and not being overly burdensome, but it does not give us the right to just say ok, we'll consider you Jewish.
However, someone like this should be encouraged to convert and the process should not be made difficult for him. His comes form a long line of Jews on his father's side. He is zera yisrael. And if he does not want to convert, he does not need to. Israel should offer some form of civil marriage. Israel has many non-Jewish and non-Muslim citizens, and they need to be able to function and carry on normal lifecycle events and daily activities. Civil marriage could be restricted to non-Jews, if people are worried about what it might cause to the Jewish community and the institution of halachic marriage and potential mamzerus, but these thousands of Israeli citizens need their basic rights to be met.
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May 24, 2021
local fighter heading to the octagon!
Nili Block, world champion kickboxer and local RBS resident and daughter of a friend, is making her way over to the MMA with the goal of eventually (in 2022) fighting in the octagon for the UFC!
Wow!
Right now she is waiting for medical clearance to officially join MMA. Hopefully she'll fight her way through and make it to the octagon and become world champion at the largest stage!
I'll be rooting for her!
source: Ynet and Nili's FB page
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May 20, 2021
Soccer Shma
Tomer Hemed, an Israeli footballer playing for Wellington Phoenix, scored a goal the other day against Melbourne City. Celebrating the goal. Hemed pulled a kipa out of his shirt and put it on his head, while pointing to heaven and covering his eyes he recited the Shma prayer.
Later Hemed posted online about dedicating the game to his country, Israel, with an expression of hope for peace.
His team is upset at him about his form of celebration, as is the league administration. They expect no punishment at this time, but it seems a reprimand will be forthcoming, besides for the admonishing he has already been subjected to..
It seems he was penalized for the celebration, as covering the head or face with a mask or other covering is against the rules.
They are upset about the human tragedy happening and think he was celebrating Israel's perpetration of that.
Sports used to be supposedly apolitical - and if it was political that was only in the background. Nowadays it seems as if sports is openly political.
The penalty is fine - he celebrated in a way that broke the rules, and he got a penalty for it as I assume he likely expected he would. The criticism for his showing solidarity with his country, with expressing a wish for peace and showing solidarity with his people.
At the same time, he surely must have known he was going to be censured for his act and he did it anyway. I am proud he stood up for what he felt was the right thing, solidarity with his people, in the face of punishment and criticism.
In today's day and age of self expression, sports are finding it difficult to relate to the young athletes who have different ideas of "the unwritten rules" than what used to be common. Disputes like this are happening all over sports.
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Feb 10, 2021
Israel finds a way to make it work, but only for some
Next week Israel is supposed to host some international judo tournament in Tel Aviv, with 800 athletes from 90 countries.
I was surprised to discover that this is still taking place. Despite CoronaVirus, despite the cancelation of almost everything else in the country and the fighting over opening businesses and schools, despite the airport being shuttered except for extreme humanitarian cases that have to be excepted via a special committee....
Despite the fact that Ynet says the authorities putting the event together say the stricter guidelines are being followed with regular CoronaVirus testing of all participants, not being allowed to leave the complex, etc.
And I get it. Israel has signed on to all sorts of international agreements. If Israel wants to participate in such events, and host such events, it can't just back out and change things.
But there is a freaking pandemic.
If Israel can find a way to make things work for international athletes coming for a tournament, Israel should be able to find a way to make things work for shuls, schools, shopping malls, local sports, restaurants, businesses and everything else. Israelis are no less important than international athletes.
And if Israel cannot find a way to make it work for local businesses and shuls and everything else, we should not be hosting international tournaments right now.
All over the world marathons have been canceled, the Olympics have been canceled, all sorts of other conferences and tournaments have been canceled. I think it would be totally understandable for this event to also have been canceled or rescheduled. When it comes to this event suddenly we are smart enough to find a way to make it work? Again, if we know how to put such an event on, we should be able to open up most other things as well.
האיגוד העולמי קבע כללים נוקשים ודורש בדיקות קורונה לפני ההגעה ליעד, עם הנחיתה ובמהלך התחרות, וכן איסור על יציאה מהמלון והגעה לאולם התחרות בלבד, כאשר בכל האירועים האחרונים לא נרשמו הדבקות בנגיף.
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Dec 21, 2020
Picture of the Day
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| Picture taken from post by Lia Rostenne on SJ FB page |
cool shot taken of the Bat Yam Hockey Team playing an exhibition game against the Dubai Mighty Camels, in Dubai, this past Motzei Shabbat. Cool lineup of Cohen, Levy and Israel..
No, I don't know why #14 doesn't have his name on his jersey as the others do, nor why the others don't have "Israel on their jerseys as 14 does (unless Israel is his name)...
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Aug 10, 2020
Rooting and Cheering for Auschwitz
Can you imagine Israelis and Jews rooting and cheering for Auschwitz?
Remember when Israel first flew Israeli Air Force jets over the train tracks by Auschwitz for the first time in 2003? The symbolism, the commemoration, the attitude... [many] Israelis and Jews all over were proud.
Then there were also bands made up from prisoners who performed for the Nazis and guests. They probably received many cheers, though likely not by their fellow Jews.
Now, for the first time, an Israeli hockey player has signed to play with the Auschwitz hockey team. Is that stunned silence I hear?
Again, according to TOI, Eliezer Sherbatov has signed to play for the team in Oswiecim (aka Auschwitz) and is not afraid of the Polish fans screaming anti-semitic chants at him, as they are known to do. Sherbatov wants to help his team win all the championships and let it be known that an Israeli Jew helped them win it all.
Good luck Sherbatov. Make us proud. Maybe one day Auschwitz will be known for things other than the concentration camp, like the hockey championships you bring it, I guess.
Go Auschwitz! Go Auschwitz!
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