THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 17, 1984
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five foreign countries (Canada,
Mexico, Venezuela, Australia and Is-
rael) will send delegations to the
week-long festival, Dr. Oliff said. The
young athletes will compete in
swimming, track, gymnastics, rac-
quetball, volleyball, basketball, soc-
cer, tennis and table tennis, with par-
ticipants divided for the events ac-
cording to age and sex.
The athletes will be housed in
approximately 400 homes through-
out the metropolitan area, including
the homes of many of the Detroit
team members. Other arrangements,
including much of the food prepara-
tion, will fall under the auspices of
JCC, Robinson said. The Center will
serve lunch to participants Monday
through Friday and dinner on Mon-
day and Tuesday nights. This means
a total of about 11,000 kosher meals
will be prepared by the Center, ac-
cording to Robinson, "Maccabi volun-
teers will help with the meal set-up
and the serving of food," he added.
The Games chairman will take a
personal role in the proceedings as
well as a supervisory one, playing
host to three out-of-town athletes in
his Orchard Lake home for the dura-
tion of the competition.
A group of 200 volunteers will be
doing much of the work during the
competition, according to Dr. Oliff,
from being in the middle of the action
as referees for the events themselves,
Dr. Marty Oliff, left, and Jay Robinson
go over details for the 1984 Maccabi
Youth Games.
to performing such mundane chores
as making decorations and helping
with transportation. Among the vol-
unteers will be a number of Sinai
Hospital staff members, who will
provide emergency medical service.
Augmenting the actual athletic
competition will be a number of
planned social and cultural activities
during the week. On Tuesday night,
half the delegations will head down-
town for a moonlight cruise on the
Bob-Lo boat, while the other half
attends Israel Night at the Jewish
Center, featuring the Israeli dance
troupe, Bells of Peace. Wednesday
evening the groups will trade places,
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Maccabi Games schedule
Following is the schedule of
events for the 1984 United States
Maccabi Youth Games. Beginning
Sunday, an up-dated schedule of
each day's activities will be avail-
able by calling the Games hotline,
661-1844.
SUNDAY: Registration and
athlete pick-up, 8 a.m., Jewish
Community Center; Opening cere-
monies, 7:30 p.m., West Bloomfield
High School.
MONDAY: Swimming, 9 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m., JCC; Tennis, noon,
Centaur Racquet Club: Soccer, 9
a.m. Keego Harbor Fields; Basket-
ball, 8:30 a.m., JCC, Orchard Lake
Middle School and Abbott Middle
School; Racquetball, 10 a.m. and 2
p.m., JCC; Volleyball, noon, West
Bloomfield High School; Track, 7
p.m., West Bloomfield High School.
TUESDAY: Swimming, 9 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m., JCC; Gymnastics,
9:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Whitlock
Gymnastics School; Tennis, noon,
Centaur Racquet Club; Soccer, 9
a.m., Keego Harbor Fields; Vol-
leyball, noon and 7 p.m., West
Bloomfield High School; Racquet-
ball, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., JCC; Bas-
ketball, 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., JCC,
Orchard Lake Middle School and
Abbott Middle School; Track, 7
p.m., West Bloomfield High School.
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WEDNESDAY: Swimming, 9
a.m. and 1:30 p.m., JCC; Gymnas-
tics, 10 a.m. Whitlock Gymnastics
School; Tennis, noon, Centaur Rac-
quet Club; Soccer, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.,
Keego Harbor Fields; VolleybaW 9
a.m. and 1 p.m., West Bloomfield
High School; Table Tennis, 9 a.m.
and 1 p.m., JCC; Basketball, 8:30
a.m., JCC, Orchard Lake Middle
School and Abbott Middle School.
THURSDAY: Swimming, 9
a.m. and 1:30 p.m., JCC; Tennis,
noon, Centaur Racquet Club; Soc-
cer, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Keego Harbor
Fields; Volleyball, 8:30 a.m., JCC;
Racquetball, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
JCC; Basketball, 8:30 a.m., JCC,
Orchard Lake Middle School and
Abbott Middle School.
FRIDAY: Soccer, 9 a.m. and 3
p.m., Keego Harbor Fields; Tennis,
noon, Centaur Racquet Club; Vol-
leyball, 8 a.m., West Bloomfield
High School and 2 p.m., JCC; Bas-
ketball, 9:45 a.m., JCC, Orchard
Lake Middle School and Abbott
Middle School.
AUG. 25: No events scheduled.
AUG. 26: Basketball, 9:30
a.m., JCC; Tennis, 9 a.m., Centaur
Racquet Club; Volleyball, 8 a.m.,
JCC; Racquetball, 9 a.m., JCC;
Closing ceremonies/two-mile
memorial run/walk, 11 a.m., JCC.
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allowing each athlete an evening
spent cruising Detroit River and a
night of Israeli-style singing and
dancing at the JCC.
There will be a hospitality suite
for the teens located on the Center's
upper level. The suite has been out-
fitted with pool and ping-pong tables,
video games, a VCR-equipped televi-
sion and a scoreboard on which daily
results from the various events will
be posted.
Many of the host families have
also planned activities for their
guests on days which they won't be
competing, Dr. Oliff said, adding that
tourist information packets were
given to the host families along with
their housing assignments earlier
this month.
The U.S. Maccabi Youth Games
are actually an outgrowth of the
Maccabiah Games held every four
years in Israel. The Games are
named after Judah Maccabee, the
Jewish military and religious hero
who led the ancient Hebrews' revolt
against Syrian oppressors in 168
B.C.E. During the Jewish persecu-
tions of the late 19th Century, an-
swering a plea from Zionist leaders
such as Theodor Herzl and Max Nor-
dau for a "muscular Judaism," the
Jews of Eastern Europe and the Mid-
dle East formed athletic clubs and
named them after the Jewish hero.
In 1929, a world meeting of the
various clubs was held in Tel Aviv,
and the Maccabiah Games were es-
tablished. Eventually, the Games
were recognized by the International
Olympic Committee. The next Mac-
cabiah Games will take place in the
summer of 1985 in Israel.
Sunday's opening ceremonies
will feature an Olympic-style parade
of athletes with Detroit team mem-
bers Erica Wolff and Joshua Gruskin
accepting two torches, one from
Memphis and the other from Israel,
and lighting the 1984 Maccabi Youth
Games torch.
Detroiter and national cam-
paign chairman of Israel Bonds,
David Hermelin, will serve as emcee.
Scheduled to address the opening
ceremonies are: U.S. Senators Carl
Levin and Donald Riegle; Israel
Peled, executive chairman of the
Maccabi World Union; Michael
Hechtman, president of the Detroit
Sports for Israel Committee; JWB
President Esther Leah Ritz; and Joel
Tauber, president of the Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation.
The Bells of Peace and
Tamarack Dance Village, a local
dance group choreographed by Har-
riet Berg, also will perform.
The closing ceremonies, which
will be held 11 a.m. Aug. 26 on the
JCC's Stuart Sachse Athletic Field,
will feature a two-mile,
community-wide run/walk and a
special memorial tribute to the 11 Is-
raeli athletes killed by terrorists at
the 1972 Munich Olympics. Each
participant in the run/walk will re-
ceive a commemorative pin and the
ceremonies will conclude with the ex-
tinguishing of the torch and the an-
nouncement of the 1986 Maccabi
Youth Games, tentatively scheduled
for Toronto.
The opening and closing cere-
monies, as well as all the athletic
events, are open to the public and free
of charge.
NEWS
Israeli hopes for medal dashed
Los Angeles (JTA) — Is- first with 19.70. In ' 42nd with 106.5 points, and
rael did as well as expected boardsailing, Yehuda Yohanan Moyal was 43rd
in the 1984 Olympic Games, Atedji was 14th with 111.60 with 110.80 points.
according to officials of the points, far behind the 27.70
Itzchak Yonassi scored
Israel Olympic Committee. scored by the Netherlands' 582 points in men's air rifle
This year, Israel's best gold medal winners.
competition to finish eighth
chance ever to win its first
Maya Bentzur was elimi- in that event. He was 39th
Olympic medal rested with nated in the preliminaries in the three position rifle
two sailors, Shimson Brok- of the women's broad long competition which involves
man and Eitan Friedlander. jump. Her leap of 19.11 feet shooting from a prone,
The two came in strong in was seventh in her group. kneeling and standing posi-
their closing races in the Mark Handelsman was tion. Yair Davidovitz was
470 class of yachting, but eliminated in his heat of the 46th in the three position
their poor showing in the 1,500 meters, and fared no event, 23rd in prone rifle
earlier days held them to a better in the 400 and 800 and 53rd in air rifle.
tie for seventh place with meters.
Aviram Mizrachi was
Britain. Their net score of
Niki Drori was ranked fourth in the 500-meter
70 points was quite a bit be- 17th in the women's foil men's kayak race.
hind the winning score of competition and Lydia Meanwhile, two Jewish
33.70 points by Spain. The Hatuel was 26th. Itzhak athletes on the U.S. Olym-
U.S. team of Stephen Ben- Hatuel was 16th in the pic team won medals.
jamin and H. Christopher men's foil competition, and Robert Berland of Wilmett,
Steinfeld won the silver Shlomo Ayal was 17th.
Ill., won a silver medal in
medal with 43 points, and
In women's gymnastics, the 180-pound class in the
France was a narrow third Limor Friedman was judo competition, and-Dara
over West Germany.
ranked 59th with 68.65 Torres of. Beverly Hills,
In the Flying Dutchman points. and Nancy Calif., won a gold medal as a
class Yoel Sela and Eldad Goldsmith was 60th with member of the four-woman
Amir were seventh with 72.05 points. In men's gym- 400-meter freestyle swim-
. 65.40 points. The U.S. was nastics, Yaakoy Levy was ming team.
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