Uruguayan People by Religion - Uruguayan Jews, Uruguayan Agnostics, Andy RAM, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Gabe Saporta, Jos Batlle y Ordez (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Uruguayan Jews, Uruguayan Agnostics, Andy Ram, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Gabe Saporta, Jos Batlle Y Ordez, Jorge Drexler, Marcelo Lipatin, Moshe Halbertal, George Davidsohn. Excerpt: Andy Ram (Hebrew: born April 10, 1980) is a professional tennis player from Israel, and the first Israeli tennis player to win a seniors Grand Slam event (mixed doubles title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, together with Vera Zvonareva). He plays more doubles than singles as he prefers doubles more and wins more matches. He uses a Wilson racquet and is sponsored by Fila for his attire. He attained his highest doubles ranking through July 2009, # 5, in July 2008. He reached 28 doubles finals and won 15 of them through 2008, mostly with partner Jonathan Erlich; together, they are known in Israel as "AndiYoni." Ram, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, is Jewish. His father Amiram, a former professional soccer player for Betar Jerusalem in the 1950s, is Israeli. After his father was injured he was sent to Uruguay on "shlihut" ("outreach"), and it was there that he met Ram's mother, who is Uruguayan. He has an older brother and a younger sister. They moved to Jerusalem, Israel when he was 5, which is when he began playing tennis. "It was tough at the beginning because I couldn't speak the language, and was fighting with people in the kindergarten who didn't understand me," said Ram. "My parents decided to send me to the tennis center not long after we arrived." "I really enjoyed playing tennis, because when I was six or seven years old and winning tournaments it felt good," said Ram. "From when I was 8 or 10 I knew it was going to be a career for me. It's a tennis life so it wasn't so easy. You have to give up many things. When all my friends were playing outside I ha... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3153046