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Munich Massacre… 40 Years Later
A personal story written by an an Israeli athlete…. who happens to be my beautiful mother! As a proud alumni of the Wingate Institute, a passionate Zionist, and a past student of many of the talented Olympians murdered at Munich, it’s important for me to pay respect to those victims who have shaped me into the passionate and dedicated person I am today. Forty years ago, today, I was 18 years old, in love with watching and playing sports, and was one of Amitzur Shapira’s trainees. Amitzur was a committed athlete, and an event stronger coach. His passion for seeing his students excel was evident not only for future Olympians, but for all his students. I remember seeing him one week before he left for the games. My class wished him good luck, told him to come back with team...
Victims of Munich Olympic Massacre Finally Granted Appropriate Remembrance
After 40 years the IOC has finally agreed to hold a minute of silence for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches that were so brutally murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. After enough support was finally gained on the controversy IOC President Jacques Rogge bowed to pressure to allow the minute of silence in the opening ceremony of the London Games. The Munich victims were originally scheduled to be honored in a separate ceremony at Guildhall in London organized by the Israeli Olympic Committee without any mention at the opening ceremony. I think that it is absolutely abhorrent that politics should play a role in a moment that should remain pure and uniting. Why wouldn’t the committee previously allow for a moment of silence in the opening ceremony if not because the deceased were Israeli. Is it because they don’t...
Inglorious Basterds and Sandy Koufax
I got into Newark from Tel Aviv at 5pm on a Friday. Too late for the Haredim, which meant fewer babies. It was one of the more peaceful plane rides from Israel I’ve been on. Nevertheless, I can’t sleep on airplanes, so I watch movies. And in the case of this trip, somebody (somebody who either knows exactly what they’re doing, or somebody who really has absolutely no idea what they’re doing) decided that one of the choices on the flight back from Israel should be Inglorious Basterds. Every time there was a scene that was decked out in swastikas, I worried just a little that a survivor might be looking over my back, but when I turned around nobody seemed to be paying attention. My viewing of Inglorious Basterds was somewhat of an exception to the way I normally...
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