{"id":44523,"date":"2018-08-29T04:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44523"},"modified":"2018-08-29T04:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:22:58","slug":"israeli-equestrian-rider-withdraws-from-world-championships-due-to-conflict-with-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-equestrian-rider-withdraws-from-world-championships-due-to-conflict-with-yom-kippur\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli equestrian rider withdraws from world championships due to conflict with Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1588039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Dean Mouhtaropoulos\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 An Israeli equestrian rider has withdrawn from next month\u2019s world championships because the competition will take place on Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n<p>The International Equestrian Federation event, which will take place this year in North Carolina, is a prelude to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where Israel\u2019s equestrian federation hopes to compete for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli rider Dan Kramer sent a letter&nbsp;earlier this month to the international federation saying that he would not compete due to the conflict with the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Ynet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-5331708,00.html\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided not to join the other members of the Israeli national team and not to participate in the upcoming world championships in the United States, because the competition is taking place on Yom Kippur and I want to honor this day as well as the Israeli public and Jewish Diaspora,\u201d Kramer wrote in a letter to the Israel equestrian federation\u2019s chairman Kenny Lalo, Ynet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer, who is living in Belgium, grew up on Moshav Hayogev in northern Israel, where his family owned a horse and he dreamed of competing in the Olympics. He suffered a leg injury while serving in the Israel Defense Forces, and returned to riding as part of a physical therapy regimen. He qualified for next month\u2019s world championship last year.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the team were divided over the decision by Kramer, whose absence could cost the Israeli team an Olympic berth.<\/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=\"Israeli%20equestrian%20rider%20withdraws%20from%20world%20championships%20due%20to%20conflict%20with%20Yom%20Kippur\";<\/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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491,642],"tags":[9567,9568,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523"}],"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=44523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44524,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523\/revisions\/44524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}