{"id":103603,"date":"2023-05-06T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103603"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:04:53","slug":"22-00-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103603","title":{"rendered":"NBA Player and Sacramento Kings Center Domantas Sabonis Is Converting to Judaism, His Wife Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>NBA Player and Sacramento Kings Center Domantas Sabonis Is Converting to Judaism, His Wife Reveals<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Domantas Sabonis. Photo: Augustas Did\u017egalvis via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lithuanian-American NBA All-Star Domantas Sabonis, who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings, is in the process of converting to Judaism, his Jewish wife revealed in a recent interview with JWeekly.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe really haven\u2019t talked about it [publicly]. He loves [Judaism] and really wants to be a part of it,\u201d Shashana Sabonis told the Jewish publication about her husband. The couple had a Jewish wedding in August 2021 and have a one-year-old son named Tiger. Shashana, who is pregnant with their second child, added that Domantas, 26,  regularly does lessons on Zoom to learn about Judaism with Rabbi Erez Sherman from Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter [he had] a triple-double against the Houston Rockets, I get a text, like, \u2018Hey can we find time to learn?\u2019 I\u2019m like, you\u2019re for real,\u201d said the rabbi, who also hosts the sports podcast Rabbi on the Sidelines<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s always asking questions. He keeps kosher, and when he\u2019s in Vilnius, he\u2019s going to the kosher butchers to get chicken.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shashana also told JWeekly<\/em> that while Domantas is serious about converting, his NBA career makes it difficult for him to keep all the laws of Judaism. She explained, \u201che has to fly and he has to do those things, but he\u2019s continuing his learning. We keep Passover, we keep Shabbat. We don\u2019t drive, and we do Shabbat dinner every week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sabonis\u2019 also have a close relationship with Rabbi Mendy Cohen of Chabad of Sacramento. The rabbi put mezuzahs<\/em> up at their house and recited the Megillah<\/em> for them on Purim after the Kings played earlier that night, JWeekly <\/em>reported. Domantas attended the Chabad\u2019s Purim party this year, where he signed autographs, and in December he sponsored a donut giveaway at a Kings home game in honor of Hanukkah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shashana, who grew up in Los Angeles, said her husband is thankful for the support the Jewish community has shown him. She said, \u201cpeople that follow me [on social media] see how we do the holidays and Shabbat, and I think it\u2019s really fun for the Jewish community to see that representation in basketball.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Domantas was drafted in 2016 and previously played for the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder before signing with the Sacramento Kings. The 7\u20191\u2032 athlete is the son of NBA Hall of Famer and legendary center Arvydas Sabonis, who played for the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NBA Player and Sacramento Kings Center Domantas Sabonis Is Converting to Judaism, His Wife Reveals Shiryn Ghermezian Domantas Sabonis. Photo: Augustas Did\u017egalvis via Wikimedia Commons Lithuanian-American NBA All-Star Domantas Sabonis, who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings, is in the process of converting to Judaism, his Jewish wife revealed in a recent interview with JWeekly. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103934,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103603\/revisions\/103934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}