Maccabi invites you to Mexico
July 5, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Filed under Maccabi Australia, Sports News
Nominations will open on Friday for athletes to join the Australian Team heading to Mexico City for the Pan American Maccabi Games in July, 2019. Read more
Roll on Maccabiah
May 27, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
Filed under Maccabi Australia, News
Maccabi Australia has announced the upper management for the 20th Maccabiah Games to be held in Israel in 2017. Read more
Heading for Dallas
February 22, 2015 by Leanne Shelton
Filed under Younger Minds
Eight young Maccabi NSW basketballers have been selected to compete at the JCC Maccabi Games in Dallas, Texas in August. Read more
MacPlan 2015 released
February 11, 2015 by Leanne Shelton
Filed under News
Presidents and representatives of Maccabi Clubs have met to discuss exciting plans in store for Maccabi NSW in 2015. Read more
Lara receives inaugural scholarship
February 2, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
The winner of the inaugural Maccabi Australia Rudi Roth Sports Scholarship was announced at the closing ceremony of the 33rd Maccabi Australia Junior Carnival held in Melbourne last week,and Maccabi Australia is excited to announce NSW Junior tennis player Lara Kaplan as the recipient. Read more
Maccabi meets Montefiore
January 29, 2015 by Donna Surdut
Filed under Younger Minds
Participants in Maccabi’s Junior Carnival from across Australia converged at Jewish Care recently to participate in Maccabi-Jewish Care Community Day. Read more
Maccabi Australia announces new President
December 2, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
Barry Smorgon has been elected as the new President of Maccabi Australia. Read more
Triathletes in World Championships
September 23, 2014 by
Filed under News
The World Masters Triathlon championships were held recently in Canada and three Australian Maccabi Master Triathletes competed in the championships. Read more
Tzedek welcomes Maccabi statement
July 7, 2014 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
J-Wire has published Maccabi Australia’s updated policy on protecting children in their care from sexual abuse…Tzedek has welcomed the new strategy. Read more
MacPlan
February 7, 2014 by Leanne Shelton
Filed under News
Exciting plans for Maccabi youth and a strong focus on Judaism, sport, identity and leadership were the key talking points at the recent MacPlan information session. Read more
Maccabi: Victims speak through Tzedek
August 20, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
37-yr-old Shannon Francis was sentenced to 5 and a half years minimum imprisonment for sexual offenses against young girls including two charges of sex with a minor. Some of the girls involved were members of a Maccabi basketball team. Tzedek, the advocacy group headed by Manny Waks, has issued a statement on behalf of some of the girls… Read more
Maccabi Australia apologises for “insensitivity”
August 16, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
Maccabi Australia has acknowledged complaints made against the sports club by victims of a former basketball coach jailed this week for having had sexual relations with underage girls and for sexual assault. Read more
Maccabi basketball coach jailed
August 14, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
A former Maccabi basketball coach has been jailed for a minimum of four and a half years having pleaded guilty to having sex with two underage girls and sexually abusing two others. Read more
1997 – remembering the victims
June 30, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
Filed under News
The 415 Australian team members at the 19th Maccabiah will once again honor the memories of the four team members who lost their lives as a result of the bridge collapse in 1997…and any Australians in Israel on the date are invited to attend. Read more
One Day with the ZFA
June 13, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Filed under News
J-Wire recently spent a day with the Zionist Federation of Australia in Israel…checking out Australian youth working as volunteers in its Israel By Choice program. Read more
Olympic chief lauds Maccabi
April 19, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Filed under News
One of the key players in landing and organising the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games says the “whole Maccabi movement deserves recognition” for the work being done ahead of the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel in July. Read more
Birth of the Blues
March 31, 2013 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Filed under News
Maccabi Rugby started in Newcastle in 1968…today it has over 400 members – all invited to a pre-Maccabiah reunion. Read more
The Party’s Over
January 24, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
Filed under Maccabi - Victoria, maccabi nsw, News, Sports and Activities
One last evening of saying goodbyes and that was it…the end of a highly successful 2013 Maccabi Junior Carnival. Read more
Brazil – Here we come
December 13, 2011 by David Weiner-Maccabi NSW
Filed under Uncategorised
The countdown is over for Maccabi Australia’s team heading to the Pan America Games in Sao Paolo. They depart for Brazil on Wednesday ready to do Australia’s Jewish community proud wearing the green and gold. Read more
Maccabi football coach Ian Gray dead at 46
February 17, 2010 by Henry Benjamin
Filed under Uncategorised
Police are treating the death of popular Maccabi NSW Maccabi soccer coach Ian Gray as suspicious. Read more