{"id":24595,"date":"2015-06-18T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=24595"},"modified":"2015-06-19T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:41:13","slug":"stephen-currys-mom-says-israel-trip-transformed-her-spiritually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/stephen-currys-mom-says-israel-trip-transformed-her-spiritually\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry&#8217;s mom says Israel trip transformed her spiritually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; The mother of Stephen Curry, the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player, said a trip to Israel five years ago transformed her and sparked her interest in learning Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>Sonya Curry told Israel&#8217;s Sport 5 channel in an interview after Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, California, on Sunday night that her son&#8217;s basketball success is a result of &#8220;grace and favor.&#8221; She added that he was &#8220;made for this moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry&#8217;s Golden State Warriors own a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are coached by Israeli-American David Blatt and led by four-time MVP LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p>Sonya Curry showed the interviewer the Hebrew tattoo on the nape of her neck that reads &#8220;chen,&#8221; meaning grace.<\/p>\n<p>She said that following a visit to Israel about five years ago, she &#8220;was just transformed spiritually.&#8221; Curry said she wanted to learn Hebrew because it is the language that Jesus spoke and she wanted to read the Torah in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry and his wife have matching tattoos in Hebrew, a translation of a passage from 1 Corinthians 13:8 in the New Testament that translates to \u201clove never fails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors defeated the Cavaliers on Wednesday night in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, capturing the league championship.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Stephen%20Curry%27s%20mom%20says%20Israel%20trip%20transformed%20her%20spiritually\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[1957,7148,8790,8795,8788,7147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24596,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions\/24596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}