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150 Detroit Teens
At Maccabi Regionals

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success with the
Detroit Maccabi
Club. The popularity
of Detroit's Jewish
Community Centers
North American Maccabi
Youth Games in 1990 and
the subsequent games
have boosted interest in
the Detroit teams for
1993.
According to Dr. Alan
Horowitz, president of the
club, "We seem to have an
inordinantly large number
of teens trying out." Dr.
Horowitz expects more
than 150 teens will corn-
pete for Detroit in -St.
Louis and Pittsburgh next
summer.
At soccer tryouts last
week, more than 20 girls
and 25 boys participated.
Some two dozen were at a
volleyball meeting March
4, and others could not
attend because of a snow-
storm.
The regional games in
St. Louis will be held Aug.
15-19. Detroit will send
teams in boys soccer and
baseball, track, tennis,
golf, gymnastics, racquet-
ball and girls softball.
The
regional
in
Pittsburgh will be held
Aug. 22-26, with Detroit
participating in boys and
girls basketball, girls soc-
cer, swimming, volleyball,
tennis, table tennis and
chess.
Dr. Horowitz has had

several requests from
youngsters who want to
attend both games. He
said he would not rule out
participation in
Pittsburgh and St. Louis
but would not leave
another teen-age athlete
home in favor of one who
wanted to go to both
cities.

The regional games will
accept Jewish athletes 12
to 16 years old as of Aug.
1, 1993.
Delegation heads for
the Detroit teams will be
Jill Spokojny and Michael
Kobernick. New coaches
this year will be Laureen
Rosenberg (gymnastics)
and Don Rudick (girls
softball).

Team meetings will be
held 7:30 p.m. March 11
at the Maple-Drake
Jewish Community
Center for athletes inter-
ested in the track, swim-
ming, gymnastics, golf
and chess teams.
Other tryouts at the
JCC: racquetball (2 p.m.
March 14), boys and girls
tennis (3:30 p.m. March
14), girls softball and boys
baseball (4 p.m. March
21), boys. basketball (5:30
p.m. March 21), table ten-
nis (6 p.m. March 28).
Athletes who missed the
initial tryouts in soccer,
girls basketball or volley-
ball should call Dr.
Horowitz, 737-0639.

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Mission Makes
Israel The Place

RUTH LITTMAN STAFF WRITER

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his April, if bars
seem quieter, malls
emptier and restau-
rants a bit less busy,
consider this: 1,285 Jews
from metropolitan Detroit
will have left for a 10-day
Miracle Mission to Israel.
"Everybody in Israel is
talking about this trip,"
said Mission co-chairman
Jane Sherman. "Nobody
there can believe that
Detroit is coming with
three jumbo jets."

Miracle
Although
Mission organizers are
marveling at the enthusi-
astic response, the large
turn-out poses logistical
challenges.
The trip, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit and
The Jewish News, origi-
nally was planned for 200
people. With many times
that number and three El
Al 747 jumbo jets, local
organizers are scrambling

