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The First Israeli in the Winter Paralympics Refuses to Compete on Shabbat
Sheina Vaspi also donned a skirt on the slopes.
As a strictly Orthodox Jew, the paralympic skier Sheina Vaspi was relieved when she obtained a religious exemption to compete in the Beijing Paralympics while wearing a skirt. But when one of the events she had qualified for was rescheduled for Saturday of last week, Vaspi chose to forfeit her spot so as not to violate the Sabbath. Despite this disappointment, as David Waldstein writes in a profile of Vaspi, she is grateful to have “made history [as] the first Israeli to participate in the Winter Paralympic Games.”
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The First Israeli in the Winter Paralympics Refuses to Compete on Shabbat
Sheina Vaspi also donned a skirt on the slopes.