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From Jacob wrestling the angel CO
David challenging Goliath to
Samson's enduring heroics, Jewish
mythology has revolved around the
exceptional individual representing
the community in physical competi-
tion. Kempner's film relies on this
theme in presenting Greenberg as a
Jewish diplomat on the American
field of dreams.
There remains a strong strain of
sensationalist journalism that quick-
ly seizes upon the next Great Jewish
Hope. Israeli basketball star Oded
Katash, signed by the Knicks, and
Tamir Goodman, the star of his
Baltimore yeshiva basketball team,
were celebrated in the Jewish press.
Another Jew's reign as World
Wrestling Federation Heavyweight
champion caused some excitement,
as no one ever expected an arena in
the Midwest to ever hold thousands
of rabid wrestling fans chanting
"Goldberg, Goldberg, Goldberg!"
Hank Greenberg sat out a game
in the heat of the 1934 pennant race
to observe Yom Kippur, which was
hailed in Detroit but never celebrat-
ed to the extent that Koufax's deci-
sion was in 1965. America was still a
hostile environment to Jews in the
'30s, but was becoming a far more
open society 30 years later.
Changes in baseball reflect the evolv-
ing relationship of Jews and America,
and if present conditions continue,
Koufax's and Greenberg's legends will
only brighten in comparison to con-
temporary Jewish ballplayers.
Thirty years after Koufax retired,
muscular Detroit Tigers rookie Gabe
Kapler, the 1998 Minor League
Player of the Year, earned a great
deal of coverage in the preseason last
year, but, performing below expecta-
tions, was traded to the Texas
Rangers.
Meanwhile, also in 1999, former
Toronto Blue Jay Shawn Green (he'll
play with the L.A. Dodgers this
spring) had his second terrific year. He
became the first Blue Jay to ever hit
30 homers and steal 30 bases in 1998.
Green has never been faced with hav- -
ing to play on Yom Kippur but report-
edly does not attend synagogue and
never had a bar mitzvah.

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JoNish Lip ing In Metropolitan

This article previously appeared
in the National Foundation for
Jewish Culture's electronic
newsletter, CultureCurrents.
Visit the Web site at www.jew-
ishculture.org