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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1990
CHICAGO
'88
Community spirit
and huge
delegation coming
to Detroit.
KIMBERLY LIFTON
sini/ ti
rganizers of the 1988
Jewish Community
Centers — North
American Maccabi Youth
Games in Chicago are certain
the competition brought
together a community
typically spread out among
the city's many suburbs.
Richard Strauss, Chicago's
swimming coordinator for
the '88 games who is leading
its largest ever delegation to
Detroit this month with
300 Chicagoans
will be in
Detroit, a direct
result of hosting
the '88 Games.
close to 260 athletes and an-
other 40 coaches and
assistants, said "the Games
created a certain
cohesiveness and a sense of
pride."
Mr. Strauss said hosting
the Games in 1988 provided
the impetus for wide interest
in this year's Detroit games.
He and other Chicago coor-
dinators stressed the Games
kindled lasting friendships
between youths and their
host families. The Games, he
said, meant much more than
competition.
"It provides our kids with
an experience they will
never forget," Mr. Strauss
said. "When you see a Jew-
ish kid from Venezuela who
doesn't speak English, what
you know is that you are as
Jewish as he. This is the
height of what being Jewish
is all about.
"They will remember mar-
ching into a stadium with
flags," Mr. Strauss said.
"Athletics are important.
This is beyond gold medals.
We have our largest travel-
ing delegation in the history
of the Games (which began
in 1982)."
With 2,000 volunteers and
fewer than 100 paid staff
members from metropolitan
Chicago's seven Jewish
centers, sponsors said the '88
games created harmony
among the 250,000-person
Jewish community of
Chicago's north shore, west
shore and smaller com-
munities near the west and
south sides.
The Games cost an
estimated $1 million — part
of it raised through fund-
raising efforts and the re-
mainder from athletes' fees.
"It was worth it," said
Marty Levine, assistant
general director for
Chicago's Jewish Commun-
ity Centers. "Even though it
was two years ago, the ex-
citement still keeps people
smiling." ❑