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Breaking News Maccabi Australia To Probe Abuse Scandal
Maccabi Australia will conduct an independent review of its handling of a child sex abuse scandal that resulted in a former basketball coach being jailed last month for eight years. Shannon Francis was found guilty of several child sex abuse offenses between 1999 and 2000, including sexual penetration of a minor, while he was coaching…
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Life Jane Katz, 70, Sweeps at Maccabiah Games
When Jane Katz said she was swimming for the gold at the 19th Maccabiah Games, she wasn’t kidding. The 70-year-old Masters champion, who has participated in every Maccabiah Games since 1957, came home to New York laden with 13 medals. Katz won each of the 11 individual Masters level swimming events she entered, and also…
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Breaking News Maccabiah Games Close With Splash
The 19th Maccabiah Games came to a close in Jerusalem. The games closing ceremony, featuring some of Israel’s most popular and well known pop music groups, such as Balkan Beat Box and Infected Mushroom, took place Tuesday evening at Teddy Stadium. Speakers urged the athletes gathered at the stadium to watch the closing ceremonies to…
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The Schmooze The Sublime and Ridiculous at Maccabiah 2013
The Maccabiah Games have always been a mix of the sublime and the ridiculous, from moving displays of international Jewish unity to typical Israeli foibles — a tennis match this week was interrupted by a nearby military exercise. This year’s games are no exception: from the inspiring side of the ledger, a Cuban delegation has…
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Breaking News At this Year’s Maccabiah, NBA Coaches Are on the Sidelines
There probably isn’t a future NBA player like Lennie Rosenbluth, Danny Schayes or Ernie Grunfeld – all former Maccabiah participants before their pro careers – in the current games, but there is definitely a wealth of NBA talent coaching on the sidelines. Most of the attention has centered around New York Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire,…
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Israel News Amare Stoudemire Talks Jewish During Maccabiah Games Visit to Israel
(JTA) — The two Israeli television cameramen awaiting the Canadian basketball team’s arrival at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games didn’t hint at the chaos about to envelop Amar’e Stoudemire. The 6-foot-11 forward for the New York Knicks stepped from the chartered bus last Thursday and the cameramen departed, duly satisfied they had captured…
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Breaking News ‘Big White Jew’ Leads African Nation of Guinea-Bissau in Maccabiah
Andrew G. Szabo gets asked a lot of questions about his delegation at the 2013 Maccabiah games − “Where is that?” being the main one. It’s a fair enough question, really, for Guinea-Bissau − the country Szabo and his nine teammates are competing for − is not to be confused, as Wikipedia helpfully points out,…
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Breaking News Hooking Up at the Maccabiah Games
For British table tennis champion Dov Katz, 38, the last Maccabiah Games, in 2009, were pretty sweet — and not just for the competition. “It was July 10th, a Friday, and we had spent the whole afternoon playing football in Netanya. In the killer sun, which is obviously the worst kind of preparation for our…
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