GELF MAGAZINE has an interview this week with Tamir Goodman, the alliteratively-nicknamed “Jewish Jordan” (as labeled by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), who has returned home to Baltimore recently to pursue his basketball career with the Premier Basketball League’s Maryland Nighthawks.

Goodman, the first Orthodox Jew to garner attention in American high school basketball circles, only played two unremarkable games for the Nighthawks before dislocating a finger. Still, all the attention on Goodman has brought notice to the PBL and been mutually beneficial for both parties. So what will Goodman do with this round of press on his return home?

Goodman has big plans:

“(The Tamir Goodman Leadership Camp is) the first summer camp to bring together African Americans and Jewish players. We’re going to bring Jewish players from all over the country to play against Baltimore’s top African-American players. They’re all high-school kids.”

It appears to be no pipe dream, either; it has a date and a venue.

While external hopes about Goodman’s NBA potential have long since been dashed and the mantle of the Jewish Jordan has been passed to a more literal candidate, his effervescent attitude about basketball and public service stay stronger than anyone else could have expected. Welcome back, mensch.