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Matisyahu Zamir has been playing ball his whole childhood and had no plans to miss the Maccabi Games.

Despite injury, Woodmere teen enjoys Games

Though injured, Woodmere resident Matisyahu Zamir traveled to the 2022 Maccabi Games in San Diego July 31 to Aug. 5 to help ensure the boy’s 16U basketball team made up of teens from Long Island, … more

By Kepherd Daniel | 8/25/22

New Gural JCC Executive Director Aaron Rosenfeld with administrative assistant Randi Gottlieb speaking about an organizational issue.

Aaron Rosenfeld is the new executive director of the Cedarhurst-based Gural JCC

Aaron Rosenfeld, the new executive director of the Cedarhurst-based Marion & Aaron Gural JCC in the Five Towns, was working as a lawyer in 2001, a profession he aspired to since the seventh grade, when he said he became the designated advocate for his schoolmates in debates with teachers over homework or other classroom issues. more

By Jeff Bessen | 2/7/19

After the May 28 training session, the U.S. Maccabiah karate team appeared ready for the competition at the July games.

Maccabi karate team visits Woodsburgh [Photo gallery]

Dr. Alex Sternberg and his wife, Ilyse, opened their Woodsburgh home to the U.S. Karate team on May 28 that will be competing in the world Maccabiah Games in July. Sternberg was behind making karate a part of the games in 1977. In contrast, karate will make its Olympic debut in three years. more

6/12/17

Representing the Friedberg JCC in Oceanside a team of 16-year-old boys won the bronze medal at the Maccabi Games. From left, coach Billy Schneider, Josh Cohen, Benjy Hakakian, Mark Spivak, Cody Zafran, Adar Benzaken, Avery Feldman, Alec Schonfeld, Avery Lubin, Josh Netto- Rosen and coach Dean Schneider.

Year in Review, July: Medals for Friedberg JCC athletes

A team of 16-year-old boys representing the Friedberg JCC in Oceanside won the bronze medal in basketball at the 2012 JCC Maccabi Games held in Rockland County from Aug. 12 to 17. more

12/27/12

Medals for Friedberg JCC athletes

A team of 16-year-old boys representing the Friedberg JCC in Oceanside won the bronze medal in basketball at the 2012 JCC Maccabi Games held in Rockland County from Aug. 12 to 17. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/22/12

The JCC of the Greater Five Towns was part of a team that won the silver medal for girls’ basketball at the Maccabi Games in Israel. From left at top, Arlyn Goldberg, Ally Goldstein, Abbey Harris, Nina Leibowitz and Jordana Alpert. In front from left, Rebecca Jedwab, Lara Decter and Amanda Povman.

Girls’ hoops team wins silver at Maccabi Games

For the first time ever the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns was represented in the Maccabi Games that this year took place for the most part in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona. more

JEFF BESSEN | 8/25/11

The Hawks of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway won the annual Scott Satran Memorial Tournament.

HAFTR Hawks win Scott Satran Memorial Tournament

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) not only hosted a memorial tournament, won it, but school families opened their homes to students from eight yeshiva high schools in the New York area and Baltimore on the weekend of Jan. 8-9. more

1/19/11

General studies Principal Naomi Lippman, right, stands with Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway seniors, Shelby Rosenberg, left, and Jason Fruchter, center, who medaled at the Maccabi Games.

HAFTR students medal at Maccabi games

Two Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School students returned home from the recently concluded International Maccabi Games in Sydney, Australia with medals. more

JEFF BESSEN | 1/5/11

One of the many photographs saved by Lorraine Abramson’s mother that appears in the book. Abramson (center) won gold in two races at the 1965 Maccabi Games. She didn’t run the races barefoot, but had taken off her spikes before being called to the podium after the 100m victory.

A race to remember family history

Not wanting her four grandchildren to have the same regrets she had about not asking her grandparents questions about family history, Hewlett Bay Park resident Lorraine Lotzof Abramson wrote her memoir. more

Jeff Bessen | 10/6/10

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