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Rabbi Allen Krause

Synagogue Sportsmanship

Most of my congregation knows from references I\’ve made over the years that I am a devoted sports fan. Ever since I was a youngster,

sitting with my dad watching football on TV, I\’ve had \”my teams\” — the Rams, the Dodgers and the Bruins. On rare occasions I have even gone to the games, and there, like everyone around me, I\’ve participated in cheering on the players. That has always seemed to me perfectly reasonable behavior — it is, after all, recreation — and, in the last analysis, it\’s just a game. There are limits, of course, to acceptable behavior in the stands — I never could get into booing and screaming epithets at the other side, or at the referees and umpires. Starry-eyed idealist that I may be, I have always believed in good sportsmanship.

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