The 14-year NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire will continue his basketball career in Israel. This comes after his announcement that he was retiring after 14 years in the NBA.
Amar’e Stoudemire will be leaving for Israel next week to find housing and schools for his children. He has signed for two years with Hapoel Jerusalem with intentions of establishing roots in Israel for his wife and two kids.
“I didn’t want to do a one-year situation [in the NBA] because I would have to uproot my family again,’’ Stoudemire said.
“This is a very, very emotional decision for me because at this moment, I have to uproot my family who have been stable in the U.S. to move to a different country,” Stoudemire said at New York press conference. “It’s also a spiritual journey as well. The next phase of my career – people have documented my journey with the Holy Land the last six years, the interest in playing in Israel. That dream has come true.”
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What makes someone culturally Jewish?
A headline and a photo such as YWN has posted here can really be misleading and self-defeating. In the frum world’s ongoing struggle against heterodox movements, it would seem counerproductive for YWN to even appear to give credence to the notion of a non-halachic Jew. There are 3 possibilities regarding this person’s status:
-He is a Jew
-He is a goy
-He sincerely wishes to convert
What is a “cultural” Jew?
חכמים, הזהרו בדבריכם
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If a person has one jewish grandparent , they are allowed to make Aliyah, that is the law of return. They have that law because the Nazis and the Soviets would persecute someone who had at least one jewish grandparent even though such a person probably isnt Halachically jewish
Several years ago he told the media that his mother claimed she was Jewish but has no evidence to back it up and he was adopted at birth, which makes him very Jewish indeed and his children even more so…
I love it. I also identify as culturally Jewish ie I like kugel chulent gefilte fish a good shtickel herring a little old Williamsburg. Some davening sometimes a shiur,yom tov is nice chol hamoad trips are great and the list goes on.
Sad seeing as he was such a good player. He shud have stayed in the nba