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Fast Forward 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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The Schmooze Amare Stoudemire Goes Shopping in Jerusalem
Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall was teeming at dusk on Sunday with people out enjoying the cool summer evening. Surprisingly, not many of them seemed to notice an extremely tall celebrity among them. It was New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire doing some souvenir shopping with his wife, Alexis, and some of their kids. Stoudemire…
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Fast Forward Cuba’s Maccabiah Team Reflects Jewish Revival
When the members of the Cuban delegation march on to the pitch in Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium for the 19th Maccabiah’s opening ceremony, they will be making Jewish sporting history. Although individual Cuban athletes have participated in the Maccabiah before, this is the first time that an official delegation from the communist island south of Florida…
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Fast Forward Australia Jews Furious at Maccabiah Tragedy ‘Disgrace’
Australian Jews scored the Maccabi movement for continuing to employ officials responsible for the deaths of four Australians at the 1997 Maccabiah Games. As this year’s games launched in Israel this week, Peter Wertheim, of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said: “It is hard to believe that a Jewish organization would behave with such…
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Fast Forward Aly Raisman Leads Parade of 9,000 Athletes at 19th Maccabiah Games
U.S. Olympian Aly Raisman lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the 19th Maccabiah Games, which features a record number of nearly 9,000 athletes. Thursday night’s ceremony at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem featured pyrotechnics and performances with hundreds of dancers and popular Israeli singers, as well as electric violinist Miri Ben-Ari. American “X Factor”…
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Life Swimming for Maccabiah Gold at 70
There are over 900 American athletes competing at the 19th Maccabiah Games currently taking place in Israel. Among them is swimmer Dr. Jane Katz, who broke a record before even getting in to the pool. Katz, 70, is competing in an amazing 14th consecutive Maccabiah Games. While many Jewish athletes have been coming to the…
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Fast Forward Righteous Pole’s Maccabiah Reunion With Rescued Jew
Many of the athletes flying into Israel this week to participate in the 19th Maccabiah Games would say this is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But for one 86-year-old Polish-Catholic woman who will be among the crowd of tens of thousands attending the opening ceremony at Teddy Stadium on Thursday evening, it marks the…
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Fast Forward Survivors Seethe at ‘Disgraceful’ Embrace for Maccabiah Disaster Officials
Sixteen years after the darkest chapter in Maccabiah history, some of the survivors of the 1997 bridge disaster are seething that officials found criminally responsible for the deaths of four Australians still continue to operate inside the Maccabi movement. Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki, and Warren Zines died after a makeshift bridge over the…
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