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Mark Zimmerman, Special For The Jewish LightFebruary 7, 2022

Jason Brown is a Jewish figure skater who will be representing the United States at the Beijing Olympic Games. He has won numerous events in the past, including 9 medals at Grand Prix international events, the 2015 United States National Championship, and a bronze medal in a team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In 2019 Brown began using the music from Schindlers Listas the accompaniment for his routines.

Explained Brown, I have really loved tapping into the heart and soul of the piece. He will be presenting a free skate routine to this music later this week. Jewish music has been used before at the Olympics, most notably by Jewish American Aly Raisman, who performed her gold medal-winning gymnastics floor exercise toHava Nagilaat the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

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Raisman dedicated her medal to the 11 IsraeliOlympians who were killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

More controversial use of Jewish music took place at the Rio Olympics in 2016, when an athlete competed to a klezmer song,Kol HaOlam Kulo. The melody toKol HaOlam Kulo waswritten byRabbi Baruch Chait utilizing words byReb Nachman, thefounder of the Breslover Hasidic movement.

A) Rabbi Chait objected when the song was used to accompany Japanese gymnast Sae Miyakawa during her floor routine. Rabbi Chait stated that her routine was not very modest.

B) Rabbi Chait objected when the song was used to accompany Turkish gymnast Tutya Ylmaz during her floor routine. Rabbi Chait stated that the music is not appropriate for a Muslim athlete.

C) Rabbi Chait objected when the song was used to accompany Japanese gymnast Sae Miyakawa during her floor routine. Rabbi Chait stated that the music is a matter of sanctity that cannot be used for just anything.

D) Rabbi Chait objected when the song was used to accompany Israeli rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin during her floor routine. Rabbi Chait stated that a woman should not be performing to the music of our Rebbe in a public place. Only a man is allowed to do that.

E.Rabbi Chait objected when the song was used to accompany Japanese gymnast Sae Miyakawa during her floor routine. Rabbi Chait stated that herroutine was not very modest and the music is a matter of sanctity that cannot be used for just anything and, by the way, he should have been paidroyalties.

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Jewish Trivia: Music at the Olympics - St. Louis Jewish Light

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