THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28 Friday, August 22, 1975
most Jewish Athletes Shy Away From `Jewishness'
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By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1973, JTA, inc.)
One reader from Florida
wants to know who the Jew-
ish ballplayers are in the
major leagues and has sub-
mitted a list of about 20
names. Obviously, there ar-
en't 20 Jewish ballplayers in
the major leagues.
Another reader compli-
ments us on the fact that we
devote so much time and
effort to delineate what's
going on in the sports field
in Israel.
We hold that there is an
inter-relation between the
two letters. As a youth I,
too, was interested in know-
ing which ballplayers were
Jewish, and, as a matter of
fact, which athletes in all
fields of sports were of the
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Jewish faith. I got over this
obsession once I began to
cover the sports beat. It
seemed to me that Jewish
players weren't overly en-
thralled with their Jewish-
ness and did little to help
out in Jewish communal
affairs.
The Jews fell prey to the
insults and slurs of enemy
players, and in many
cases, fellow performers
on the same nine added
their epithets. Once the
black athlete came into his
own, the target shifted
from Jewish players to
black players, and with so
many blacks now perform-
ing in baseball, basketball
and football, the overall
thrust of conversation in
dugouts has changed con-
siderably.
Over the years I have
found only a handful of
Jewish athletes who really
cared about their religious
background and practiced
some of-the tenets. The out-
standing examples I can
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One of the most exploited
and most successful basket-
ball entrepreneurs, who is
gone now, rarely acknowl-
edged his background. This
man made millions with his
exhibition basketball team
American ORT's feature-
length documentary,
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shown to audiences corn-
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community school students
and to a special meeting of
ORT Italy members in
Milan during, June.
Since the film was shown
in the English version, a
summary in Italian was
presented.
and was known in all cor-
ners of the earth. Yet I could
never get him to do much to
aid Jewish sports endeavors,
although, to a certain ex-
tent, he was gallant in other
areas by the lending out of
his team for charitable
causes.
On the other hand, in
basketball, Eddie Gottlieb,
owner of the South Phila-
delphia Hebrew Athletic
Society, used to inform
both his basketball and
baseball teams in Hebrew
lettering. Eddie has been
active over the years in the
United States Committee
Sport for Israel and has
helped in a quiet way to
promote Jews in sports
whenever possible.
The strangest occurrence
in this area happened to me
while I was public relations
director for the National
Basketball Association. One
of my associates was one of
the greatest all time Jewish
basketball players. • Unfor-
tunately, he had a very poor
Jewish background.
It developed that he
wanted to form a Fellow-
ship Of Jewish athletes simi-
lar to the Fellowship of
Christian athletes. I ex-
plained to him that the Fel-
lowship of Christian ath-
letes was based on religious
faith and that was the
prime function for these
athletes to organize. It was
comprised, and still is, of
those non-Jewish athletes
who are religious, moral
and upright. In the course of
my conversation with my
co-worker, it developed that
he had never had a Bar
Mitzva. It just happened
that his father, a foreigner
by birth: never gave him a
Jewish education.
As a result of my findings
of this nature over the
years, I prefer to write,
whenever possible, about
sports in Israel. I feel and
believe that readers in the
United States of the Anglo-
Jewish press are concerned
about the state of Israel,
whether they are religiously
inclined or not.
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The second athlete, who is
also a basketball player, is
Aaron Grandinson of Col-
umbia University, a black
who graduated from Queens
Yeshiva and currently is
playing basketball in the
Israeli national league. For
the most part, however, you
don't find too many Jewish
athletes who think of them-
selves as Jewish or contrib-
ute to Jewish causes.
Before the war more than
half a million of the Jewish
faith lived in our country as
German citizens enjoying
equal rights. Today there
are less than 40,000 of them,
half having come from East-
ern Europe.
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think of is Ramy Gat, cap-
tain of Israel's national bas-
ketball team seven or eight
years ago, who was one of
the few Israelis I encoun-
tered who conducted his
daily life more like a Jewish
individual than a Jewish
athlete even in the state of
Israel where a lack of reli-
giousity is very common.
The few Jews living in our
midst are not Israelis and
not foreigners, they are
Germans like ourselves.
Even today, after such a
long time, it is not easy for
a Jew to decide that he
wants to be a German and
remain one.
It takes a lot of forgiving
to make such a decision. Let
us thank them for it. Jewish
descent should never more
be allowed to be a criterion
determining the destiny of a
German citizen.
—German President
Walter Scheel
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