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Who says a nice Jewish girl can't be a bodybuilder?
haaretz ^ | 12/16/10 | Jewish Journal

Posted on 12/16/2010 9:16:43 AM PST by Nachum

If you imagined the typical Jewish physique, bodybuilder is probably not what would come to mind. In pop culture, Jews are skinny and bespectacled like Woody Allen, or chubby and unshaven like Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. Sometimes the rare tough and rugged Israeli shows up, fighting terror and being macho. But big, buff and tan — that’s something you rarely see. So how did a nice Jewish girl end up becoming a champion in the sport of hulking supermen like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman?

In Erin Stern’s case, it all started with three centimeters.

Three centimeters is not a long distance to travel. It’s barely more than an inch. Take one footstep and you’d blow right by it. But for Stern, the three centimeters she couldn’t travel changed her life forever.

A Junior All-American at the University of Florida, Stern had been competing in events like the pentathlon and heptathlon since high school. Her high-jump numbers were good enough that she set her sights on the Beijing Olympics. All that stood between her and the team trials were a few short centimeters. She kicked her training into overdrive, and her numbers improved, but she was falling just shy of what she needed.

“I’m a little short for a high-jumper,” says the statuesque 5-foot-8 Stern, chuckling. “I gave it my all, but I couldn’t make the last three centimeters.”

Dejected, Stern was forced to give up on Olympic high jumping.

“I was extremely bummed,” she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


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To: jla

ARRRGH - For your sins go to people of walmart and look at the women there.


41 posted on 12/16/2010 9:51:55 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

LOL I honestly am not sure if you’re serious or not!


42 posted on 12/16/2010 9:53:16 AM PST by jla
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To: Rebelbase

Those things could hold enough C-4 to level six city blocks.

43 posted on 12/16/2010 9:54:23 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: jla
I guess Coetzers alright if you like that sort of look


44 posted on 12/16/2010 9:57:40 AM PST by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on)
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To: from occupied ga
Sins? What do you have against voluptuous women in wet T-shirts?
45 posted on 12/16/2010 9:58:05 AM PST by jla
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To: Responsibility2nd

Simona Halep couldn’t get “around” to hit her overheads... she kept getting slapped in the face and knocked out.


46 posted on 12/16/2010 9:59:27 AM PST by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on)
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To: Dick Vomer

Yeah, I like that sort of look.


47 posted on 12/16/2010 10:00:57 AM PST by jla
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To: jla

You misspelled “voluminous”.


48 posted on 12/16/2010 10:01:53 AM PST by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: jla

That must have been taken after the BP gulf spill. Shes got oil covering her cankle.


49 posted on 12/16/2010 10:04:16 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: pogo101

She also played the foster-mom in “T2” and one of the murdered cops (the one in the exploding pool) in “Lethal Weapon 2”.


50 posted on 12/16/2010 10:05:41 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Lazlo in PA

What’s that thing behind her. Is she preparing to “time jump” through the stargate.


51 posted on 12/16/2010 10:05:44 AM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: Nachum

FYI..Erin has her own website..just google it..


52 posted on 12/16/2010 10:06:26 AM PST by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: Redcloak

LOL Perhaps the camera adds weight to her, (and that tattoo on her right leg is the coup de grâce)


53 posted on 12/16/2010 10:07:10 AM PST by jla
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To: jla
voluptuous women in wet T-shirts

Rosie O'donnell is a woman? who knew? I kind of classify Rosie O with farm animals on the scale of attractiveness.

54 posted on 12/16/2010 10:13:00 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Nachum

Corollary: Who says a nice Jewish girl can’t kick your a** if you get fresh?


55 posted on 12/16/2010 10:20:59 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Also in “Titanic” she had a minor role as the (very) Irish mom, in steerage, who along with her two young kids failed to get off in time. We last saw that character reading a bedtime story to her kids as the boat foundered, hoping that they would die without anguish. Very sad moment.


56 posted on 12/16/2010 10:22:29 AM PST by pogo101
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To: pogo101

“I only need to know one thing: Where...They...Are...”


57 posted on 12/16/2010 10:24:07 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: jla
I think we should round this out with a former journalist:


58 posted on 12/16/2010 10:28:46 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: jla

“It was like sleeping with a piece of gristle.”
The ex-Mr. Madonna


59 posted on 12/16/2010 10:29:07 AM PST by tumblindice (bow down to your federal Overlord)
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To: Nachum

There’s actually a pretty good story to go along with the pictures if anyone is interested. (I know, I know, and I read Playboy for the articles too . . . . )


60 posted on 12/16/2010 10:37:49 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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