With nearly 2,000 athletes descending on Pittsburgh, organizers encourage community to represent, volunteer and take part in ...

Samantha Bressler and Victoria Varkonyi prepare to play soccer in the Maccabi Youth Games. Worldwide athletic competitions are typically held every four years. While the most well-known are the ...

The Tucson Jewish Community Center will host the Maccabi Games next week, welcoming around 900 teens from various countries ...

The first North American Games for youth were held in 1982 in Memphis. Subsequent competition has been in Detroit and Toronto. Originally Published: September 17, 1987 at 1:00 AM CDT ...

The games are the equivalent of Junior Olympics for Jewish youth aged 13-16. The JCC Maccabi Games began in 1982 with 300 participants in all sports held at the games. This year, more than 6,500 ...

Not yet. They had four children, including three boys, but her oldest was only 8, when the two youth soccer players England in Newport Beach arrived to stay with them during the Maccabi Games in 2007.

Story about the success of the JCC Maccabi Games hosted in Broward County from Aug. 9-14 by the David Posnack Jewish Community Center.

It was Erin Silverman’s first Maccabi Games experience. On a sweltering August night in Detroit, she stood side by side with her teammates during the opening ceremonies as they neared the ...

The JCC’s Maccabi Youth Games are held every two years in North America. They are an offshoot of the Maccabiah Games that are held every four years in Israel.

Taglit-Birthright Israel offers 10-day (double Maccabi time) free trips and guided tours of Israel in friendship-inducing groups of 40 to all Jewish youth aged 18-26 who haven't lived in Israel as ...

A group of young people from the Hartford region returned from the Maccabi Youth Games last week with fists full of medals and a network of new friends.The games, held in Richmond, Va., and ...

The Wayne resident started practicing young and already was competing in a Philadelphia-area recreational league at age 5. This fall, Brynn and her twin brother, Alex, will enter eighth grade at ...