Star NFL defensive end Igor Olshansky was the guest of honor at a recent Friday night meal hosted by the Chabad Jewish Student Center serving S. Diego State University in California.
Football Star Makes Appearance at College Campus’ Shabbat Dinner
Star NFL defensive end Igor Olshansky was the guest of honor at a recent Friday night meal hosted by the Chabad Jewish Student Center serving S. Diego State University in California.
Joined by former S. Diego Chargers lineman Michael London, who played football in the late 1960s, Olshansky told the more than 250 students who came to meet him that they should be proud of their Jewish heritage. A second-round 2004 draft pick out of the University of Oregon, Olshansky plays for the Chargers, where he has earned a reputation as one of the strongest defensive players in professional football.
Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in 1982, he moved to S. Francisco with his family at the age of seven. Before college, he attended the city’s Hebrew Academy, a Jewish day school. He’s the first player from the former Soviet Union to be drafted by an NFL team.
Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah, co-director of the campus-based Chabad House, said that the football-themed event was a big hit.
charger fan
Go Igor!
charger fan 2
go rabbi boudjnah
last yrs shlucha
go rabbi chalom! and mairav!
chabad @ sdsu is the best.