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STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

T

here’s no better time than the dead of winter to look
forward to a summer event.
Tryouts and auditions are being held this month for
Detroit teen athletes and artists who want to participate in the
2017 JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest.
Detroit will have 14U boys basketball, 14U boys baseball and
14U and 16U girls soccer teams along with dancers and golf-
ers at the July 30-Aug. 4 Maccabi Games in Birmingham, Ala.,
Franci Silver
hosted by the Levite Jewish Community Center.
ArtsFest will be held Aug. 6-11 at the
Maccabi Games in Miami, Fla., hosted
by the Alper Jewish Community Center.
Detroit will have ice hockey, 16U boys
basketball, 16U boys baseball, girls bas-
ketball and girls volleyball teams along
REMAINING
with tennis players and swimmers in
Miami.
DETROIT TRYOUTS
After encouraging turnouts at infor-
• Boys basketball — 12:30-
mation meetings held last month at
2:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at Farber Hebrew
the JCC in West Bloomfield, Detroit
Day School, 21100 W. 12 Mile Road,
Maccabi Games delegation heads Franci
Silver and Karen Gordon are confident
Southfield.
Detroit will be well represented in
• Ice hockey — 8:45-10:15 p.m.
Birmingham and Miami.
Jan. 18 and 3:45-5:15 p.m. Jan. 22 at
The Maccabi Games are an Olympic-
Farmington Hills Ice Arena, 35500 W.
style sports competition for Jewish
Eight Mile Road.
youths ages 13-16 (as of July 31 the year
• Girls Volleyball — 7 p.m. Jan.
the Maccabi Games are held) hosted
16 and 7 p.m. Jan. 25 in Gym No. 2 at
the JCC in West Bloomfield, 6600 W.
each summer at several communities in
Maple Road.
North America.
• Girls Soccer — 5:30 p.m. Jan. 12
ArtsFest, which began in 2006, is for
in the Inline Hockey Center at the JCC.
Jewish youths ages 13-17. Specialties are
acting/improvisation, culinary, dance,
Check www.MaccabiDetroit.com
musical theater, rock band, star report-
for tryout updates. For information
ers, visual arts and vocal music/glee.
on ArtsFest auditions, contact Julie
Maccabi Games athletes and artists
Feinbaum at jah903@gmail.com.
also participate in cultural and social
activities and do community service
work, called JCC Cares.
Scholarships are available for Detroit athletes and artists,
who will have practice sessions, community service and get-
togethers locally before leaving for their host site.
Detroit delegations will fly to Birmingham and Miami.
While the sponsoring JCC Association requires an 8-to-1 par-
ticipant-to-adult ratio for delegations at the Maccabi Games,
Detroit’s ratio is generally much smaller. Housing arrangements
are handled by the host community.
Family members can attend the Maccabi Games by purchas-
ing spectator passes on www.MaccabiDetroit.com. Scholarship
information also is on the website.
Silver can be reached at (248) 505-9007 or francisilver27@
gmail.com. Gordon can be reached at (248) 561-3329 or
karengordon44@icloud.com.
On a related note, Silver said, “It’s 99 percent certain” Detroit
will host the Maccabi Games again in 2019. “So please think
about being a volunteer or host family,” she said.
Detroit previously was a Maccabi Games host in 1984, 1990,
1998, 2008 and 2014. It was the only site in 1984 and 1990, when
the Maccabi Games were held every two years. •

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