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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ChabadKahanist on August 20, 2021, 08:37:53 AM

Title: Why did Max Baer Sr. Wear a Magen David on his shorts if he was not a Jew?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on August 20, 2021, 08:37:53 AM

Does anybody know?

Title: Re: Why did Max Baer Sr. Wear a Magen David on his shorts if he was not a Jew?
Post by: Noachide on August 22, 2021, 05:10:33 AM

His father was Jewish so maybe he considered himself Jewish out of ignorance.

Title: Re: Why did Max Baer Sr. Wear a Magen David on his shorts if he was not a Jew?
Post by: Zelhar on August 23, 2021, 08:51:09 AM

I think for publicity.

Title: Re: Why did Max Baer Sr. Wear a Magen David on his shorts if he was not a Jew?
Post by: Nachus on August 25, 2021, 12:47:34 AM

 :usa+israel:                                                                                                                        :fist:

These reasons you post seem to make sense
although he could also have somehow been
identifying with his father’s Jewish heritage.