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maccabiah games
Bruce Pearl tapped as Auburn basketball coach
Bruce Pearl, who led the U.S. team to the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games, was hired as the head coach of the Auburn University men’s basketball team.
Moving and Shaking: Andi Murez wins big at Maccabiah Games, Tour de Summer Camps registration opens
Andi Murez, 21, a swimmer from Venice Beach competing in her second Maccabiah Games this year, was named Most Outstanding Athlete out of all the women who competed during the 19th annual international athletic Jewish event.
2013 SoCal Maccabiah medalists
About 150 Southern California athletes competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel last month. The games kicked off the opening ceremonies on July 18 and ran through July 30, offering participants from all over the world opportunities to connect to Judaism and Israel through sportsmanship.
Maccabiah Games close in Jerusalem with Israel topping medal count
Israel handily won the most medals at the 19th Maccabiah Games, which came to a close in Jerusalem.
Age just a number at Maccabiah Games
Being an alter-kacker — Yiddish for someone who’s an “old fart” — is relative. Many of the species, stereotypically, while away summer days at the beach cabana, sporting white shorts and knee-high dark-checkered socks, playing cards with the boys and grumbling about surgeries or high blood pressure medication.
Remembering AMIA at Maccabiah
American, Canadian, Australian, Russian and British athletes started filling out of a Jerusalem hotel lobby last Thursday to buses that would transport them to the opening ceremony of the 19th Maccabiah Games.
At the Maccabiah, making mom, grandma and great-grandma proud
For a week before they started competing, many of the 1,100 U.S. athletes in this year’s Maccabiah Games toured Israel and learned about their Jewish heritage.