HOW JEWISH KARATE CHAMP STOOD UP FOR HER JUDAISM

How a Jewish karate champion stood up for her beliefs (JPost)
Sara Rivka Ernstoff is a top-ranked, fourth-degree black belt in karate in Israel. At 1.5 meters tall, Ernstoff might be small in size, but she is large in stature. Twenty-five Rosh Hashanas ago the Boston native, then known as Pam Glaser and the reigning United States women's national karate champion, was making headlines around the globe.

The headlines were not only because she was the number one female in the country, but because she refused to compete in the US's World Championship trials that were being held on Rosh Hashana. That refusal would ultimately leave her out of the squad that went to the World Karate Championship in Taiwan. READ ON....