A

champion was 
crowned last 
month in the Inter-
Congregational Men’
s Club 
Summer Softball League’
s fall 
season.
The Jeters, who tied for 
second place during the 
regular season, beat the sur-

prising Kosher Ribs 12-8 in 
the playoff title game Oct. 18 
at Keith Sports Park in West 
Bloomfield.
As with everything else this 
year, the COVID-19 pandemic 
was lurking in the background 
each Sunday during the fall 
season.

But the six teams each 
played all 10 regular-season 
games and the one-day, five-
game, single-elimination play-
offs went off without a hitch.
“There was a sense of nor-
malcy when we were out there 
playing this summer and fall. 
We got to spend some time 
outdoors and take our minds 
off what’
s going on in the 
world,” said Jeters manager 
Victor Uzansky.
Pandemic-required rules 
like no tags that were in place 
during the league’
s summer 
season were also enforced 

during the fall season.
“Everyone got used to the 
new rules,” Uzansky said. “We 
were excited about getting a 
chance to play.”
SHAEF was a perfect 10-0 
during the fall regular season 
and earned the No. 1 seed for 
the playoffs. The Jeters (6-4), 
Marble Rye (6-4), Kosher Ribs 
(4-5-1), The Sandlot (2-8) 
and Bad News Jews (1-8-1) 
rounded out the regular-season 
standings.
Kosher Ribs beat The 
Sandlot 8-2 and Marble Rye 
beat Bad News Jews 13-3 in 

J

udah Schulman and Toby 
Milstein got married Oct. 
18 in a small outdoor cere-
mony in New York.
For the 28-year-old NYC 
residents, the nuptials were the 
latest chapter of a 12-year love 
story that began on a volleyball 
court at the JCC of Metropolitan 
Detroit in West Bloomfield.
The two first met after a 
volleyball match at the 2008 
JCC Maccabi Games hosted by 
Detroit. Each said it was love at 
first sight.
Schulman, from Teaneck, 
N.J., was a 16-year-old basket-
ball player for the Riverdale Y 
team. Milstein, from Scarsdale, 
N.Y., was a member of the Mid-
Westchester volleyball team.
One of Schulman’
s basketball 
teammates was dating a member 
of the Mid-Westchester volley-
ball team. That’
s how Schulman 
ended up at Milstein’
s volleyball 
match on Aug. 20, 2008, the day 
before her 16th birthday.
“I saw Toby playing and cheer-
ing with such passion and enthu-
siasm and thought, ‘
Wow, this 
girl is so cute. I have to introduce 
myself to her,
’
” Schulman said. 
“So, I walked up to her after the 
match and did just that.
”

What was Milstein’
s first 
impression of Schulman?
“He was incredibly handsome,
” 
she said. “I could hardly believe 
this tall, blond-haired cute guy 
was real. It didn’
t take me long 
to realize the irony of having just 
met my own ‘
Judah Maccabee’
 
at the Maccabi Games. That 
may have been a little wink from 
above.
”
Schulman said the two were 
“basically inseparable” at the 
Maccabi Games after they met. 
They watched each other’
s com-
petitions, texted each other and 
met at evening activities.
Their relationship continued 
after they returned home, just 
before the start of their junior 
year in high school.
There was texting, phone calls, 
Skype dates and group get-to-
gethers in New York City. That 
was the best they could do in 
an era before smart phones and 
FaceTime calls.
“We were lucky to live decently 
close to one another [45 minutes 
apart], so we could meet up with 
friends in the city,
” Milstein said.
The couple was together for 
three years, then scaled back to 
being close friends for six years 
as college, careers and Schulman’
s 

Couple who fi
 rst met at the 2008 
JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit ties 
the knot 12 years later.

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Maccabi 
Marriage

Judah Schulman proposes to 

Toby Milstein on a beach on 

Long Island.

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