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Osnat Zur (left), director of the Iris Smith World Jewish Sports Museum in Ramat Gan’s Kfar Hamaccabiah campus, with a museum guest under a chandelier comprising more than 200 sports medals.

Sporting Jews: The rise, fall, and rise of the 'muscular Jew'

By DANIEL BEN-TAL

Two of the three suspects arrested in Argentina for planning a terror attack on the Jewish community in Buenos Aires

Argentina arrests three from Lebanon, Syria in Maccabi Games terror plot

By JOANIE MARGULIES

ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT Javier Milei takes part in a Hanukkah celebration in Buenos Aires, last week.

Argentine President Javier Milei speaks at Jewish sports tournament’s opening ceremony

By Juan Melamed/JTA

From left to right: Israeli delegation member Romina Roni, Maccabi World Union Vice Chairman Riki Kanterevicz and Argentinian Ambassador Francisco Tropepi.

A scaled-back Israeli delegation is headed to the Pan American Maccabi Games in Argentina

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

World Jewish Sports Museum offers Hanukkah specials

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An AIPAC attendee sport a US-Israel themed suit

Alan Sherman, a champion of Jewish sports and US-Israeli relations, dies at 87

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Competitors play pickleball on courts set up in the outfield of Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox, during the 2023 Ballpark Series in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., July 14, 2023.

Pickleball, America’s fastest-growing sport, is a hit at Jewish camps and sports tournaments

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

TRAINING AT the Olympic Fencing Center, Acre.

Jewish fencer Eli Dershwitz becomes first US man to win sabre World Championship

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Maccabiah Opening Ceremony

Assaf Goren to lead Maccabiah 2025

By JERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF

THE JCC MACCABI GAMES, taking place in Israel in July, connects young Jewish athletes to engaging competition and content that speaks to their love of sports and strengthens their Jewish identity before many of them head to college.

JCC Maccabi Games set for Israel return

By JERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF

Ben Helfgott is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

Ben Helfgott, one of two Holocaust survivors to compete in the Olympics, dies at 93

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Michael D. Siegal receives the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor and citation from President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence on December 11.

Maccabi World Union elects Michael Siegal as next president

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF