Weekly Kibbitz
Bruce Pearl, Auburn follow up
‘Birthright for College Basketball’
trip by hosting 150 high school
students Auburn University’s men’s basketball team
hosted more than 150 Jewish high school stu-
dents from across the country for a weekend of
volunteering and basketball.

Pegged as a follow-up to the university’s
“Birthright for College Basketball” Israel trip over the
summer, the Nov. 4-6 gathering was a joint program
put on by NCSY, the Orthodox movement’s youth
arm, and Athletes for Israel, a nonprofi t that brings
athletes to Israel.

“The weekend is about showing appreciation
to Auburn,” AFI founder Daniel Posner said, citing
the success of the team’s Israel trip.

During the visit to Auburn, students partici-
pated in a basketball clinic with Auburn coach
Bruce Pearl; celebrated Shabbat with Pearl and
the Auburn basketball team; and volunteered at a
local food bank and farm for troubled teens. They
also attended the Tigers’ season opener on Nov.

7 against George Mason University.

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dents competed in a coed
basketball tournament at
a local high school, featur- Members of the Auburn University men’s basketball team prepare to
ing players from Jewish day celebrate Shabbat in Israel on July 31.

Courtesy of Auburn Athletics
schools from New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas
sional team, featured stops at some of the coun-
and Florida.

try’s most famous historical and tourist sites, an
“It’s not just a basketball tournament,” said interfaith basketball clinic hosted by former NBA
Posner, touting the unique opportunity for stu- player and activist Enes Kanter Freedom and
dents to meet with Pearl, whom Posner called “a exhibition games against Israel’s top national
basketball teams.

true leader of the Jewish people.”
Pearl is one of the more outspokenly Jewish
“I owe a great debt to Athletes for Israel and
Daniel Posner,” Pearl said. “They helped me live and pro-Israel coaches in college sports. He
a dream — that is to take my basketball team and co-founded the Jewish Coaches Association,
my student athletes and my staff to the Holy Land.” which hosts an annual breakfast for Jewish NCAA
Pearl added that bringing the teens to Auburn is basketball coaches at March Madness. He also
coached in the 2009 Maccabiah Games, which he
“an opportunity for us to say thanks.”
Auburn’s Israel trip, which was likely the fi rst has called a career highlight.

— Jacob Gurvis
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