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1. 1. Bankshot > About > Reeve Robert Brenner

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   Published on: 6/4/2008   Last Visited: 6/4/2008

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   About Reeve Robert Brenner
   
   (this is summarized from a Sports Illustrated article.For the full text, see Media.For more information, please see Reeve Brenner's web site).
   
   Reeve Robert Brenner is not your average rabbi.Your average rabbi's signature is not on his own line of basketballs, as Brenner's is.And even if it were, your average rabbi probably couldn't keep one of those balls spinning on his fingertip, as Brenner can.But let's say, for argument's sake, that your average rabbi can spin the ball.He surely would never do such a thing in front of the congregation.Brenner did.About a decade ago Brenner, performing at the pulpit of Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, N.J., spun a basketball before a couple hundred rather amazed temple goers.No, he's not your average rabbi.
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   Having outdone--at least in his own mind--Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain and Russell, Brenner has recently taken after another basketball legend: James Naismith.
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   Brenner, too, has founded a basketball game.It's called Bankshot.
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   This is only fitting, inasmuch as Brenner cites modern art giants Picasso, Kandinsky and Moreau as influences on his designs.
   
   Brenner, the sport's Wilt as well as its Naismith, is the only player known to have reached 200 points, but he is now semiretired."The inventor has got to make room for the players," he explains.
   
   Brenner sees Bankshot as a "turn in the world of sports.The world is full of running sports, and there are not a sufficient number of sports where different levels can play together."Not yet.If Brenner has his way, there will be.In addition to Bankshot, he has thought up 23 other "total mix" games.
   
   Total-mix games have their roots in Brenner's spiritual creed, which he terms "polydox," from poly, meaning many, and doxy, for doctrine."Mine isn't a view that says there's one way of doing something," he says.
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   "Reeve learned how to put shots off the ceiling," says Zalman Schrader, a West Orange, NJ, physician who grew up with Brenner.
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   "Reeve learned how to put shots off the ceiling," says Zalman Schrader, a West Orange, NJ, physician who grew up with Brenner.
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   Brenner played hoops at Brooklyn College and on a team from CCNY's Baruch School of Business Administration.He did graduate work in social psychology at CCNY and then studied to become a rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institution of Religion in Manhattan. photo: Secretary Thompson and Dr. Brenner
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   Between 1964 and '66, Brenner was an Army chaplain in West Germany.He taught Jewish religious thought and philosophy at St. Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, Pa., for two years; lived in Israel; and served at other congregations up and down the East Coast, finally landing in Maryland in 1986.
   
   He still plays an occasional game of real basketball, usually at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, Md. "He's ultratenacious," says Wayne Pines, a Washington public relations executive and congregation member who often plays with Brenner."And without a question, he's the best shooter on the court."
   
   Brenner works out of a Bethesda office that doubles as Bankshot's national headquarters and as his counseling center.On one wall is a caricature of Brenner dunking a basketball and shouting, "Polydox .... Total mix .... Bankshot .... Blah, blah, blab."Brenner loves it.
   
   Brenner is, as you might expect, always dreaming up new things in that cramped office.His latest grand scheme is to open a "folk sports" theme park, a family-oriented site that would feature all of his total-mix games."It's the next step beyond Disney," he says.Those who know Brenner don't doubt that the park will rise one day."His approach is very powerful at times," says Ovesen."He has a very sincere belief in what he's doing."
   
   "People often think of rabbis as stern and humorless," says Brenner.

2. 2. NARE - National Association for Recreational Equality

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   Published on: 12/15/2006   Last Visited: 12/15/2006

   Dr. Reeve Brenner
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   When the adolescent student killers from Pearl, MS and Springfield, OR were interviewed, one said that he was a fan of violent fantasy video games. It was said of the other young killer that he became "enmeshed in violent television and internet sites."
   
   Some time ago a social psychology experiment was conducted with two hundred high school students participating.
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3. 3. Bankshot Sports

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   Published on: 1/31/2001   Last Visited: 6/4/2008

   The fact that Rabbi Dr. Reeve R. Brenner serves as the Jewish chaplain of the National Institutes ofHealth, in no way suggests an endorsement by the NIH of the information or materials on this website. Dr. Brenner's poetry, articles and books are not associated with the NIH nor are they approved or disapproved,