Jews in Sports: The Maccabiah Games, 2022: The Jewish Olympics
By Bill Simons
Muscular Judaism and Zionism provided impetus for the birth of the Maccabiah Games, a Jewish Olympics of sorts. The first two Maccabiah were held in 1932 and 1935 in the former and future Jewish homeland, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine. World War II brought a …