SubscribeMo’ Jews, mo’ Jews, mo’ Jews
Seems Laura Spector (biahtlon), Israeli Mykhaylo Renzhyn (finished 55th in the men’s giant slalom), and Ben Agosto and the Zaretsky kids weren’t the only Jewish participants at the Olympics after all.
According to jweekly.com, Charlie White, who, with his ice-dancing partner Meryl Davis won the silver medal, and Steve Mesler, a member of the favored U.S. four-man bobsled team, are also MOT.
Mesler
White (on left)
One of the “problems” these days is the etiquette of finding out who’s Jews. On the good side, it seems that it’s less important to identify a person as a member of a group. Ask a college coach about his charges and he’ll probably tell you he has no idea.
On the other hand, it seems less important for a person to be identified as a member of a group. That is, even if an athlete is Jewish by “definition,” he or she might not even think along those lines any more, thanks to generations of assimilation and a deeper distancing from the aspects of observing the religious tenets of their faith.
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