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July 28, 2010 | 10:36 am

Amar’e Stoudemire is Jewish?

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Amar'e Stoudemire salutes the media at a press conference after signing a 5 year nearly and 100 million dollar contract to play with the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 8, 2010. UPI/John Angelillo Photo via Newscom

And here I thought Amar’e Stoudemire left Phoenix for big money in the Big Apple. Maybe he just wanted to get closer to his roots:

U.S. basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire is apparently on his way to Israel for a voyage of discovery after learning he has Jewish roots.

“On the flight to Israel. This is going to be a great trip,” announced the power forward, who plays in the NBA for the New York Knicks, via the micro-blogging site Twitter.

According to an Army Radio report, Stoudemire plans to spend time in Israel learning Hebrew, having recently learned he has a Jewish mother.

“The holy land. Learn about it,” he wrote, adding “ze ha’halom sheli” – Hebrew for “this is my dream.”

A Jewish mother—how many mothers does he have? Anyway, if that’s blood, Stoudemire is a Jew. Mazel Tov.

I just checked Twitter, and it looks like Stoudemire is enjoying his time in Jerusalem. Who wouldn’t? And it appears he’s starting to blend in with the locals:

Jerusalem is a beautiful city, I’m at a cafe eating a late lunch. I’m learning Hebrew by the min. Keep up !! Shalom.

Jordan Farmar and Omri Casspi, it looks like the tribe in growing in the NBA.

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Little known halakhic exception to needing a bunch of Israeli rabbis checking your mom’s ketubah: be famous! You can be counted Jewish just by hanging out near a synagogue! But everyone else: beware the most minute failure of observance or your conversion is revoked!

Comment by Jon on 7/28/10 at 11:37 am

Jewish status is pretty cut and dried. So far all we have is Stoudemire and his mother’s word on it, and good luck to him. If it becomes important, those rabbis will be on the case.

Stoudemire would have no conversion issues, but since you brought it up conversion to Judaism is like naturalization to citizenship. Anybody can say he is a citizen of the United States, but if it is important it can be checked out. Little known exception to that rule - be the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States!

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/03/10 at 9:00 am

Wait a second!  Is the comment above suggesting Obama is a Jew?  But he can’t both be a Muslim and a Jew simultaneously, can he?  And wasn’t Hawaii an independent country not that long ago, like Texas?  With their own tribal religion too, also like Texas.  So he can’t be a Jew unless he converted later in life.  But if his wife is a Mormon, why would he become a Jew?  This is so confusing.  Maybe Hannity can sort it out for me?

Comment by Doctor B on 8/20/10 at 11:42 am

No, ‘Doc’, the above comment says that citizenship can be checked out easily unless you are Obama, in which case the Democratic party and the corrupt courts and media will shield you from any attempts to do so.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/21/10 at 9:17 pm

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