Amare Stoudemire-Berg: The NBA’s New Jewish Star
August 8th, 2010 by Ahaviah Bessemer Leave a reply »It all started on twitter. Amare Stoudemire, the New York Knicks new power forward, and one of the NBA's biggest stars, began tweeting words in Hebrew on his personal twitter account.
A couple tweets later, one of Amare's twitter followers asked him:
"Whats up w the hebrew? Are you jewish?"
Amare's reply was simple: "Yes Indeed!!"
On July 27th, the Knicks' $100 million star flew to Israel to begin pulling up the Jewish roots from his mother's side of the family.
On the 28th, Stoudemire touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel-Aviv.
The first stop on Amare's trip was Jerusalem; his first tweet from the holy city read:
"Jerusalem is a beautiful city, I'm at a cafe eating a late lunch. I'm learning Hebrew by the min. Keep up!! Shalom."
A couple days later, and after getting a better feel for Jerusalem, Stoudemire tweeted:
"I'm having so much fun here in Jerusalem. I'm with family an friends. Love to everyone. ;-) shalom"
Following visits to more scenic places such as the Dead-Sea (the lowest place on earth), and Tiberias, ...
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Article written by Ahaviah Bessemer
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