Chelsea Football Club Owner Abramovich Recites Kiddush While Cruising With Kate Hudson on ‘$1.5 Billion’ Super-Yacht
by Shiryn Ghermezian

Roman Abramovich’s yacht anchored in Italy. Actress Kate Hudson was spotted on the ship on Saturday. Photo; Twitter.
The Jewish owner of the UK’s Chelsea Football Club was pictured reciting the traditional kiddush prayer over a cup of wine on Shabbat afternoon, as he coasted along the French Riviera on his super-yacht with actress Kate Hudson, the Daily Mail reported.
The “$1.5 billion” yacht was anchored just off the coast of Antibes, France, on Saturday. Members of the Abramovich family were also aboard the ship, and a day earlier, actor/comedian Chris Rock and his actress girlfriend, Megalyn Echikunwok, were spotted on the boat, as well.
While the Daily Mail claimed that the picture showed Abramovich performing havdalah, the ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and that the Russian businessman conducted the service “earlier than the usual time of sunset” because of “their latitude,” this is unlikely to be the case.
In the image published by the Daily Mail — in which Abramovich is wearing a yarmulka — the traditional havdalah candle and spices are nowhere to be seen, and other guests appear to be holding cups of wine, customary during kiddush, but not havdalah. In addition, The Algemeiner is not aware of an instance in which Shabbat would be terminated before sunset due to one’s latitude.
This is not the first time the Daily Mail has botched a reference to Jewish rituals.
In 2011, a story posted on the paper’s website about Abramovich’s preparations for a New Years Eve party featured a picture of the oligarch kindling the candles of a public menorah on the Caribbean island of St. Barts as is customary during the Jewish festival of Hannukah. The Mail’s caption read: “Joining in: Abramovich was mingling with the locals on the island and even stopped to light some large candles,” failing to mention anything about the festival of Hannukah.
The omission followed a similar slip up earlier that year when the paper published photos of Jewish celebrity couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump out and about in New York with their daughter Arabella Rose. In the shots, taken on the Jewish festival of Sukkot, Kushner is holding a traditional lulav – palm branch. The Mail referred to the lulav as “flowers” which it suggested might have been a “gift for his wife.”
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