Meet Thomas Poretsky, 10-year-old Native American-Jewish racer
Proudly displaying Israeli and Quechan Nation flags on his scaled-down stock car, the young but disciplined driver is proving that slow and steady can indeed win the race
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Proudly displaying Israeli and Quechan Nation flags on his scaled-down stock car, the young but disciplined driver is proving that slow and steady can indeed win the race
His No. 8 car is emblazoned with two important pieces of family heritage: an Israeli flag and a flag of the Quechan Nation.
ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. (JTA via TC Jewfolk) — Thomas Poretsky is six years away from being behind the wheel of a street-legal car and is too young to drive
Thomas Poretsky is six years away from being behind the wheel of a street-legal car. But that hasn't stopped the 10-year-old Minnesotan from getting into race car driving — in a car decked out in Israeli and Native American flags.