Following last year's postponement, athletes are getting ready for the "Jewish Olympics" under the shadow of another war.

A year and a half ago, Maccabi USAs president, Jeff Bukantz, bumped into a buddy at a Maccabi golf outing in Philadelphia. His friend had to leave the event early to attend a Phillies game, so they ...

The Maccabiah – often dubbed the “Jewish Olympics” – was set to be the largest in its 93-year history, with over 8,000 Jewish athletes from 55 countries slated to compete. On July 21, this past Monday ...

On May 3 at Hagan Arena at Saint Joseph’s University, the Kaiserman JCC will light the opening torch for the Mini and Junior Maccabi Games.

Since the quota for olim had been cut by the British, the Maccabiah offered a great opportunity to come but not leave.

The Maccabiah Games, the quadrennial event referred to as the “Jewish Olympics,” have been postponed by one year due to ongoing conflicts in Israel. The Maccabiah organization announced that due to ...

The Maccabiah Games scheduled for Tel Aviv next month will be postponed to 2026 amid widespread disruption wrought by the Israel-Iran war. The games, seen as akin to a Jewish Olympics, had been set to ...

The conflict in the middle east is impacting Jewish athletes around the world. This summer’s Maccabiah games have been postponed to Summer 2026. The event was initially supposed to kick off next week ...

The year’s largest sporting event is set to take place in Israel this June, with more than 7,000 participants from here and around the Jewish world participating in 44 different sports in the 22nd ...

When Steve Pompan played on the U.S. tennis squad at the last Maccabiah Games in Israel, he was struck by the spectators’ tribal inclination to give advice to the players battling it out on the court.