Tamir Goodman will share his love for basketball and Yiddishkeit at a clinic benefiting disadvantaged young people in Haifa.
Photo by Michael Strader Marko
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December 11, 2008
Tamir Goodman, “the Jewish Jordan,” will be the featured guest at Haifa Hoops for Kids Hanukka Basketball Clinic held at the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, West Orange, on Sunday, Dec. 21.
Sports Illustrated gave Goodman, an Orthodox Jew, the nickname in 1999 while he was a student at the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore; the magazine ranked him the 25th-best high school player in the country.
The six-foot-three-inch point guard has played professionally both in Israel and in the United States. Goodman was signed by Maccabi Tel Aviv to begin his professional career. He played five seasons in Israel for four different teams, reaching the Israeli Cup finals and Israeli Premier League Semifinals in 2003 with Maccabi Givat Shmuel. Earlier this year, he played for the Baltimore Nighthawks in the Premier Basketball League.
Goodman signed with Maccabi Haifa Heat for the 2008-2009 season after a tryout in late July. Jeffrey Rosen, owner of the Heat and a former West Orange resident, said at the time, “We’re very excited about him. He’s quite the gentleman and a gentle soul. He loves the sport; it’s in every DNA part of his body.”
Goodman will hold sessions for kids according to their grade level. He will meet first- through fourth-graders from 1 to 2 p.m. Those in grades five and six will team up in a scrimmage against seventh- and eighth-graders from 2 to 3:30. And from 3:30 to 4:30, Goodman will host a discussion and candlelighting ceremony for all. The program concludes with ninth- and 10th-graders scrimmaging against 11th- and 12th-graders from 4:30 to 6.
The program is free for all JCC MetroWest Basketball League members; an $18 donation to Haifa Hoops for Kids is requested from others who wish to participate.
Haifa Hoops for Kids is a joint initiative of the Heat and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ to help underprivileged youths in the greater Haifa area experience a night of fun at a Haifa Heat basketball game. For more information or to make a donation to Haifa Hoops for Kids, visit www.ujcnj.org/haifahoops.
For more information on the Haifa Hoops for Kids Hanukka Basketball Clinic, contact Sherri Feldscher at 973-530-3425 or sfeldscher@jccmetrowest.org. To learn more about Goodman and the Maccabi Haifa Heat, visit www.mhbasket.co.il.
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