She may be Bright and she may be acquainted with the Torah. But Torah Bright is no Jewish gal.
In fact, the 23-year-old Australian snowboarder, who won a gold medal last night at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, is actually a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In other words, what we call a Mormon
The story goes that her parents, Peter and Marion Bright, named Torah after the Five Books of Moses when they learned from another daughter’s Jewish piano instructor that the Hebrew word meant “bearer of a great spiritual message.”
Sorry, folks, can’t claim her. But that girl can move.


