by Tamir Goodman – Kosher Spirit Magazine As a high school and Division I college basketball player, I always wore my kippah while playing ball, but I was told that it was not desirable to wear tzitzis during athletics because the perspiration and wear and tear that the tzitzis would be exposed to could degrade...Read More

Omri Casspi, ‘Jewish Jordan’ Tamir Goodman teaming for basketball clinics May 7, 2012 (JTA) — Omri Casspi of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Tamir Goodman, “the Jewish Jordan,” are teaming to run three basketball camps in suburban Cleveland. According to a news release, the camps for first- to eighth-graders are designed to improve skills of boys...Read More

by Lee Litas~Sun-Times Media (article and pictures) The Event: The theme of dreaming — and achieving — the impossible dream was front and center on April 17 inside the North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, where more than 100 supporters of the Jewish United Fund came out to meet one of Israel’s premier basketball heroes,...Read More