Kiddush / Chillul Hashem

On Sunday, I took some of my kids to Madison Square Garden to see what has become an annual exhibition game between the Knicks & Maccabi Tel Aviv to benefit a Tel Aviv orphanage. It was a great afternoon; I saw a bunch of Ma'ayanoters there & the Israeli team was surprisingly competitive. The fans were well behaved, but enthusiastically rooting against the home team. Between the fans and the commercials that made it clear that the whole event was for tzedaka, it was a wonderful kiddush Hashem, with the exception of a ten minute portion when the Maccabi coach was ejected after incessantly screaming at the refs, only instead of walking peacefully back to the locker room, he refused to get off the court, leading Rabbi Grossman, the founder of Migdal Ohr to try to make peace.