34 | SEPTEMBER 8 • 2022 

S

loan Lemberg knows 
a little bit about 
winning medals at 
the JCC Maccabi Games.
She piled up 26 of them 
competing as a Detroit 
dancer from 2014-17.
So it was no surprise that 
the three Detroit dancers the 
21-year-old West Bloomfield 
resident coached won a total 
of six medals at the Maccabi 
Games held last month in 
San Diego.
Emily Feinstein, Addison 
Fenster and Madison Kraft 
were Detroit’s dancers.
They combined for a gold 
medal in 16U hip hop trio 
and a silver medal in 16U 

Israeli trio.
Feinstein also won a gold 
medal in 14U tap solo, 
Fenster also won a silver 
medal in 16U jazz solo 
and a bronze medal in 16U 
contemporary solo, and 
Kraft also won a silver medal 
in 16U lyrical solo.
The three dancers weren’t 
the only Detroit athletes to 
earn medals in San Diego.
Ari Ellis and Spencer Sherr 
were on a 14U 3-on-3 boys 
basketball team that won 
a bronze medal. Ellis and 
Sherr were joined by players 
from Boston and Virginia 
Beach, Virginia on the 
combined team.

Dancing is a year-round 
commitment and passion for 
Feinstein, Fenster and Kraft.
Each trains at the Studio A 
Center for Performing Arts 
in Commerce Township.
“We started rehearsing 
our Maccabi Games dance 
routines in March,” Lemberg 
said. “We were able to use 
group routines done at 
Studio A, so we didn’t have 
to start from scratch.”
Coaching the dancers 
wasn’t Lemberg’s only job in 
San Diego.
She also was one of 
the 18-athlete Detroit 
delegation’s two chaperones, 
along with Donna Sklar. 

Karen Gordon was Detroit’s 
delegation head.
“I was at the dance venue 
(at the Lawrence Family 
JCC) most of the time we 
were in San Diego, but I had 
other responsibilities, too,” 
Lemberg said.
Lemberg earned three 
Midot Medals for displaying 
outstanding character when 
she was an athlete at the 
Maccabi Games.
She was presented three 
Midot Medals in San Diego.

Gold, Silver and Bronze

SPORTS

Detroit dancers, basketball players win medals at 
the JCC Maccabi Games in San Diego.

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

KAREN GORDON

Sloan Lemberg

ABBIE CAZA

L TO R: Medal winners Addison Fenster, Madison Kraft and Emily Feinstein. Bronze medal winners Ari Ellis and Spencer Sherr. Detroit dancers 
Madison Kraft and Addison Fenster and hockey players Braylon Juszak and Lucas Hutten enjoy the JCC Maccabi Games closing party with 
Toronto basketball player Zach Brotman.

TERRI KRAFT

SLOAN LEMBERG

