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Going to bat for Judaism

Nationals' Kasten draws on Jewish roots

Washington Nationals president Stan Kasten likes to visit local synagogues during his travels.

He see what separates Jews, but "more often than not, I am amazed at the things that bring us together," he said Monday night as he was honored by the American Friends of Lubavitch before 400 people at Nationals Park.

Twenty years ago, those travels brought him to the Soviet Union one Shabbat morning, when as president of the Atlanta Hawks he was part of the first National Basketball Association team to visit the then-communist country. He and David Stern, the NBA's commissioner, took a cab to the Moscow Choral Synagogue, where they quickly discovered that ...

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