Home | With the Winter Olympics well under way in Turin, you may have noticed that there is no Israeli representation in the events, but the most visible sight in Turin is actually Jewish, namely the tall building of the National Museum of Cinema.
http://www.italiantourism.com/museocinema.html
duh :P of course there's no israeli team...we're used to desert and camels) a jew on ice is like a whale in the savana
Israeli team hopes to skate into history with ice-dancing routines
By Peter Ephross
Galit Chait left Israel with her family as an infant and grew up in the United States. Sergei Sakhnovski grew up in Russia and immigrated to the Jewish state at the age of 19.
The ice-dancing duo, both Israeli citizens, will be the best hope for Israel's first-ever medal in the Winter Olympic Games.
It's a responsibility they're reminded of whenever they're in Israel, where they've put ice skating on the map.
"We're not only skating for ourselves," Chait said. "We're skating for a country-and a country that expects a lot."
According to most observers, Israelis are right to expect a lot from the pair. They won a bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships and are considered serious contenders in Turin.
http://www.chijewishnews.com/cover.jsp#201779
Turin Games provide another home for 'wandering' Jewish hockey star
By Chanan Tigay
Mathieu Schneider's father calls him "the Wandering Jew."
And while, historically speaking, most Jews haven't done their wandering on ice skates, it's not difficult to see how the term applies to Schneider: Over the course of his 17-year National Hockey League career, he's played in six different cities.
Currently a star defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings, he's bounced from Montreal to Long Island to Toronto to Manhattan to Los Angeles and, most recently, on to Detroit.
"I've been fortunate throughout my career to play in cities with tremendous Jewish communities," said Schneider, 36. "I feel as though I've ben a role model in each city that I've played in. There are very few Jewish hockey players, and it's been a nice role for me and I've really enjoyed it."
Schneider will soon be suiting up for another trip: this one to Turin, Italy, where the "Wandering Jew" will strap on his skates as a member of the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. It's the second time Schneider will be representing the United States on Olympic ice-and this time, Schneider says, he's hoping to just enjoy the experience.
"The first time around there were so many uncertainties," said Schneider, a native of New York, says of the 1998 Games. "It was the first time the NHL went to the Olympics. The travel was really tough."
Schneider has played in more than 1,000 NHL games since 1987.
Along with Washington's Jeff Halpern and Los Angeles' Michael Cammalleri, Schneider is thought to be one of just three Jews in the NHL. He says his religion hasn't been a problem for him on the ice.
Early on in his career, he recalled, there was an incident in which an opposing player unleashed an ethnic slur.
"That was the first time I heard any of that stuff. I made a mental note that the next time I had a chance, I would run the guy into the sideboards. And I did," he was quoted as saying on the Jewishvirtuallibrary.org Web site.
But outside of that-and one other similar experience at the start of his career-"there's never be any kind of taunting on the ice since."
In the intervening years, he said, the NHL has instituted sensitivity training for its players, and Schneider thinks it's working.
"I think society in general has become a lot more aware of it, and the sports world just kind of caught up," he said.
Schneider, who maintains a home in California and is a member of the Jewish Community Center in Redondo Beach, Calif., said that over the years he has made an effort to sit out on Yom Kippur and fast. It's generally not too hard, he said, because the High Holidays tend to fall during training camp and not during regular season play.
Schneider's mother converted to Judaism to marry his father. Today, he said, "she's probably the most knowledgeable of the whole family" about Judaism.
Schneider and his wife, who has been in the process of converting for the last couple of years, have three children-and one more on the way. They are, he said, being raised as Jews.
"As you get older, and especially when you have a family, religion becomes more important," he said. "I was raised as a proud Jew and I believe a lot of the lessons Judaism teaches relate really well to family.
"In the times we live in, I think it's very important to give children that sense of guidance," he added. "Jews have always stuck together."
http://www.chijewishnews.com/cover.jsp#201777
Then you must consider moving to Algeria, Ethiopia, Lebanon or Iran which do have participants. Israeli citizens/Jews living in other countries are also allowed, and, as mentioned above, there are, in fact, some.Originally Posted by Uriel
duh :P of course there's no israeli team...we're used to desert and camels
Ermmm, there is an Israeli team in Turin.
Please see my post #3 which refers to the Israeli team.
Some of you guys obviously did not watch the opening cermonies where the athletes marched in including the Israeli team.
OY!!
Yeah, well, frizzer, The Olympics are of no interest to some of us. I only posted earlier to counter the claim of the thread originator.
And while, historically speaking, most Jews haven't done their wandering on ice skates
Sasha Cohen? Are Emily and Sara Hughs Jewish (sort of look like)?
Mil - stands for the countless MILlions of reasons not to work.
LMAO
btw, Sasha Cohen I did watch last time. She is wonderful!
How can you say there are no Israeli representatives?!? Sergei and Galit are the greatest. Oh how I suffered yesterday when in the height of their perfect dance she fell on the ice!nothing is lost as it was the short program, but it will take a miracle to get them into the first 3 places now.
He can say it because he is located in the EU.
If you accept a comment from some other than Frizzer, would you please elucidate as to what a worldwide event would be more intetesting than the Olympics. I don't think there are many other events that improve the coexistence of religions and races in the same way as the Olympics.Yeah, well, frizzer, The Olympics are of no interest to some of us. I only posted earlier to counter the claim of the thread originator.
hmmmm
Munich 1972 comes to mind ...
However, I agree with you in principle. I am just not interested enough in most of the Olympic events to watch them.
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