“Cavaliers’ Omri Casspi hosts basketball camp for special needs children in Beachwood” By Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer Cleveland Cavaliers forward Omri Casspi and former Israeli basketball player Tamir Goodman hosted a special basketball camp Sunday at the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood. The camp featured a collaboration with the Friendship Circle, which brought special...Read More
Omri Casspi, Tamir Goodman Team Up for Beachwood Youth Basketball Camp June 12, 2012 By Jacob Rosen To the average eye, it might not appear that Tamir Goodman and Omri Casspi have much in common. But the two men share two very special bonds: basketball and Judaism. Because of these bonds, Goodman, 30, teamed up...Read More
Omri Casspi Basketball Camp is a Big Win for Cleveland Community By Judy Horwitz The Omri Casspi Basketball Camp, in partnership with Tamir Goodman, was a huge success with close to 80 kids in grades 1-8 from more than 20 area schools participating! The Sunday June 10th session at the Beachwood Middle School gym was...Read More
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
by Judy Horwitz On April 26th, a historic event took place when over 300 members of Chicago’s Jewish community gathered at the United Center to celebrate Israel’s 64th birthday with Tamir Goodman’s Coolanu Israel, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching Jewish values and Israel education through basketball programs. The Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration had added significance because the Bulls were...Read More
By Maxine Dovere JointMedia News Service11:04 a.m. EDT, April 18, 2012 Throughout the Jewish world, celebrations of Israel’s Independence Day will crowd calendars around the fifth day of the month of Iyar, according to the Hebrew calendar. The date commemorates the moment of the first public reading of Israel’s Declaration of Independence by Prime Minister...Read More
Former ‘Jewish Jordan’ to grace Federation Men’s Night Out March 22, 2012By Sheila Wilensky, AJP Associate Editor Tamir Goodman, 30, has been known as basketball’s “Jewish Jordan” but these days he’s an inspirational speaker promoting Jewish identity, president of Tamir Goodman Sports Consultant LLC, a husband and father of four. A former professional player for...Read More
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