18 August 1 • 2019 jn Where Are They Now? Memphis memories are still fresh for two Detroit soccer players who competed in 1982 Maccabi Games. I t’ s been 37 years since Paul Randel competed for Detroit in the inau- gural JCC Maccabi Games in Memphis, Tenn., but many memories are still crystal clear in his mind. Like how he persistently pursued and succeeded in trading his Detroit soccer jersey for a warm-up jacket worn by an Israeli tennis table player. Then there was the trip in a hot school bus with a police escort from the Memphis Jewish Community Center to a Memphis Chicks minor- league baseball game. “The Maccabi Games were much less organized then than they are today, ” Randel said. “The bus trip to the baseball game is the only planned non-sports event I recall doing in Memphis. ” Another vignette in Randel’ s memo- ry from 1982 involves an athlete from Louisville, Ky., that Randel met in Memphis. “His cousin was a girl I knew from school (at West Bloomfield High School), ” Randel said. “Sometime during the following school year after the Maccabi Games, I stepped out of a class and there was the guy from Louisville, in town visiting his cousin. ” Randel and Dave Stone both played for the Detroit soccer team in the 1982 Maccabi Games. The team lost in a shootout to Toronto in its final game. Had Detroit won, it would have advanced to the medal round in the 7 vs. 7 competi- tion. Stone scored Detroit’ s lone goal in the 1-1 tie that preceded the shootout. “I remember scoring that goal, ” he said. “I can still see the ball going into the net. Someone gave me a nice cross- ing pass and I one-timed it. ” Stone also remembers soccer games being played early in the day because of the heat in Memphis and spotting armed security personnel on the roof of the Memphis JCC. “I didn’ t feel unsafe. I just thought, as a kid from West Bloomfield, that it was interesting there were armed people on the roof, ” he said. Stone was 12 that summer, heading into the seventh grade at West Hills Middle School in West Bloomfield Township. He played soccer at Bloomfield Hills Andover High School and Eastern Michigan University before graduating in 1988 and 1992. He also played soccer for Detroit in the 1984 and 1986 Maccabi Games in Detroit and Toronto. Unfortunately, his team didn’ t win a medal in those years. Now 49 and living in Chelsea, Stone is starting his fifth year as executive director of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor after a lengthy administrative career at the JCC of Metro Detroit in West Bloomfield. Randel was 16 in the summer of 1982 and headed into his senior year at West Bloomfield High School, where he played soccer and wrestled for the Lakers. He went on to attend the University of Michigan, graduating in 1987. He was on the club soccer team at U-M as a junior. The 1991 graduate of the Wayne State University Law School has been a bankruptcy attorney for 21 years. Now 53 and living in Farmington Hills, Randel is still involved in the Maccabi Games. He was the score reporting com- missioner when Detroit hosted the Maccabi Games in 2014, and he’ ll have the same volunteer role Aug. 4-9. “I had a good time doing that job five years ago and I got good reviews, so they asked me back, ” he said. Randel and his wife, Deb Lapin, have three children, Sam, 20, Izzy, 18, and Jack, 18, who all have competed for Detroit in the Maccabi Games. Stone and his wife Tara have three children: Sophie, 13, Noah, 11, and Braedon, 7. ■ jews d in the STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Dave Stone Paul Randel House Passes Anti-BDS Vote Michigan Democrats Tlaib and Dingell vote no. A n anti-Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) reso- lution passed the House of Representatives last week on a vote of 398-17. Sixteen of those opposed were Democrats, including Michigan representatives Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell. Four Democrats and one independent, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, voted “present. ” The resolution, co-sponsored by 350 members of the House — an equal number of Democrats and Republicans — opposes BDS, “including efforts to target U.S. companies engaged in com- mercial activities legal under United States law and all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel. ” Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, said the resolution tram- pled on the rights of free speech. “I can’ t stand by and watch this attack on our freedom of speech and the right to boycott the racist policies of the gov- ernment and the State of Israel, ” Tlaib said on the House floor. Tlaib and colleague Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced a mea- sure in the House the prior week that affirms “all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. ” The text does not mention Israel. The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee posted on Twitter: “BDS disguises its true intentions under the banner of ‘ human rights, ’ yet it hypo- critically ignores human rights abuses against Palestinians in other countries across the Middle East, as well as the widespread abuses perpetrated by Palestinian leaders against their own people. ” Dingell, who voted no, said in an emailed statement to the Jewish News: “This vote was probably the most dif- ficult of my career. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are core pillars of the U.S. Constitution and critical to our democracy. Boycotts have long been recognized as protected form of speech and that must be respected. With our Constitution under attack, it becomes even more important. “Our ultimate goal, ” she continued, “must remain a long-term peace in Israel and Palestine that supports two states. In debate of an anti-BDS resolution, we cannot let this divide us and distract from our ultimate goals and vision for the region. I personally do not believe that a boycott is the way to achieve peace and a resolution to the conflict, but I also believe this resolution was very counterproductive. If we want a two-state solution, then we cannot be pursuing inflammatory resolutions like this one but investing in policies that actually get us there. ” Michigan Rep. Andy Levin voted for the resolution. “I’ m against BDS. I’ m against singling out Israel among all countries of the world in this way, ” he said. “To me, the goal of U.S. poli- cy toward Israel and Palestine should remain what it has been for many decades, which is to get to a two-state solution. And the BDS (campaign) is really not helpful to get to two-state solution and is perhaps even antithetical to it. ” Levin was opposed to the Senate ver- sion of the anti-BDS bill because he said it would “punish” those who participate in the BDS campaign. “The Senate bill actually withheld money and punishes people who participate in BDS. I don’ t have any interest in that. This is America. Everybody’ s free to do whatever they want, ” he said. ■ JACKIE HEADAPOHL ASSOCIATE EDITOR Tlaib Dingell Levin