L.A. Teens Win More Than 70 Medals at Maccabi Games

Published on September 5, 2012

Team Westside’s luggage was a little heavier on its return flight from the Maccabi Games in Houston last month. Athletes won a combined total of 18 medals in three sports at the annual competition, which took place Aug. 5-10.

Ankie Spitzer leads worldwide minute of silence for Munich 11

Published on August 13, 2012

Ankie Spitzer led a minute of silence to honor the Munich 11 that was streamed live around the world.

Maccabi Games’ Valley team to compete under Westside JCC’s auspices

Published on August 1, 2012

The closure of the Milken Jewish Community Center did not mean the dissolution of a Valley delegation to the Maccabi Games. Team L.A. Milken, which had been affiliated with the Milken JCC in West Hills, will now compete under the auspices of the Westside JCC on Olympic Boulevard.

Maccabiah tryouts coming to L.A.

Published on July 18, 2012

While hundreds of American athletes are eagerly anticipating the beginning of the Olympics in London this month, another Team USA is preparing for a different international competition.

At Maccabi Games in Vienna, symbolism—and girls

Published on July 11, 2011

The symbolism was unmistakable. Four thousand Jews stood just a few hundred yards away from the spot where a quarter-million Austrians cheered Adolf Hitler in March 1938 as he announced Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria.

Chair dancing with the ‘Jersey Boys,’ Mikey Weinstein blocks prosyletizing Pentagon video game

By Danielle Berrin
Published on September 8, 2007

Scene and Heard

L.A. teams are golden at Maccabi Games

By Carin Davis
Published on August 30, 2007

More than 60 athletes from Westside JCC's Team Westside and The New JCC at Milken's Team L.A. represented the greater Los Angeles area this month during the 25th annual Maccabi Games, scoring numerous gold, silver and bronze wins in such sports as baseball, basketball, swimming, soccer and table tennis.

The Girls of Summer

By Charlotte Hildebrand
Published on August 3, 2000

That's how it's been: one win after another.

A Goal Beyond Winning

By Michael Aushenker
Published on October 7, 1999

Dr. Jerry Bobrow remembers it well. The year was 1990. The place: The Palace, in the Auburn Hills district of Detroit.
There in the bleachers, among 16,000 people at the Maccabi Games, is Bobrow and his youngest son, Jonathan.