Bar Refaeli and Rafael Nadal hit the courts
Israeli supermodel takes part in NIKE tennis tournament in N.Y. alongside tennis giants such as Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.
By Haaretz ServiceIsraeli supermodel Bar Refaeli joined world champion tennis player Rafael Nadal Thursday to play a friendly tennis match in New York as part of a NIKE promotion campaign.
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Bar Refaeli and Rafael Nadal in N.Y., Aug. 25, 2010. |
| Photo by: AP |
Refaeli, who apparently never played tennis before the offer to participate in the games, showed the judge, tennis star Serena Williams, that she was more than just a pretty face with moves that even she seemed surprised to have pulled off.
Refaeli and Nadal, who were called "Team Rafa" by the reporters and the audience, took the tournament by storm and won first place.
Other participants included Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova.
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Why because she is Jewish.
But then, I'm a lawyer.
Israel should make peace with their draft dodging superstar - she is their best potential PR spokeswoman. At least I enjoy watching her speak.
MAYBE just MAYBE she is not a REAL semite! Suppose we were talking of other asians, say, she claimed to be Japanesy - who we be suspicious? WOULD WE? EH? EH?
I think you'll find Judaism is a religion. Is 'Japanesy' a religion? What colour hair have Christians got? What colour hair have Muslims got? Grow up.
The problem with this comment is that in the anti-Zionist community there seems to be a bizarre current trend of visually profiling people in order to claim, "you see, they aren't really from here!" The obviously hitler-esque overtones of this kind of commentary demonstrate how ridiculously morally bankrupt the anti-Zionist racial argument is for denying the Jewish right to Israel, because it basically amounts to a "you have no business being here because we have the right looks" kind of claim to legitimacy. Origins are cultural and traditional. Racial features sometimes correlate, but often do not. 2000 years of exile can do a lot. But to tell a Jew that s/he has no right claim Israel as a homeland because s/he is too white is spitting in the face of 2000 years of her unbroken ancestors praying 3 times a day in the direction of Jerusalem, studying the classical texts relating to the land of Israel, not laying the last brick of a house to remember the very well documented destruction of our Temple. Yes, along the way there are conversions, adoptions, intermarriages. But the whole point of conversions, etc., is that those people become incorporated into the tradition, which binds virtually all of Jewish religious practices to the land of Israel. Judaism cannot exist without the fundamental belief in the unbroken chain of origin in Israel. And at the end of the day, that belief does a lot more for the resolve with which people claim a territory than the mere fact of "looking the right way for it." And all of this is without even getting into the question of what people in the area looked like 2000 years ago.
There are plenty of natural blonde Jews today, remember even Jesus is often pictured as being of light-coloured hair. Why scoff at blonde Jews, scoff at blonde Arabs today! with the influx of Russians and the mixed marriages of Russians and Arabs ...
Look at the Orthodox Jews, pink and white of complexion, coming from Russia, Poland, Reumania where they were exiled by the Romans 2000 years ago. The climatic conditions of the Country Jews lived in had its influences.
If Israel is being made for Jews no matter where they come from then let Zionism say so, If Zionism is about homecoming, then non-semitic Jews are a further burden on the Semetic Palestinian Agonies.