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Rabbis earn their Spurs, despite defeat to legends team

Ministers play in team representing Laniado UK in fundraiser for Netanya hospital

September 27, 2019 11:24
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Ben Weich,

Ben Weich

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A team of Laniado UK players were thumped 5-0 by a Spurs Legends XI including Mark Falco and Stuart Nethercott. But they raised £15,000 in the process for Laniado’s Netanya hospital.

The game was played at Allianz Park, home of Saracens Rugby Club, and the Laniado side included a number of rabbis.

Among them was Dovid Usiskin, formerly of Chabad Bristol, who said facing the ex-pros was “a bit of a step up” for the team of occasional players and Power League five-a-siders. But they “gave it a good shot.

“Most of the guys were friends of the charity, or people who have been involved with it in the past.

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