The 21st Maccabiah Games are currently being held in Netanya, Israel. Jeff Rubin, a local business owner, JCC member and husband of our very own Chief Advancement Officer, Esther Greenberg, is proudly representing the US team and competing in the 65+ tennis competition. He is one of approximately 12,000 Jewish athletes competing in the games, that are often referred to as the ‘Jewish Olympics’. The first Maccabiah games were held in Tel Aviv in 1932.
The opening ceremonies were a spectacle held in a soccer stadium that housed 35,000 fans and even the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who happened to be the first US President to ever do so. As the 1,350...