Maccabi Games are Good as Gold at the Michael-Ann Russell JCC

Nov. 27, 2009 - PRLog -- More than 1,900 children, tweens, teens, and adults are registered to participate in Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center Hebraica's XXVIII Annual Maccabi Games, a week-long family-oriented Jewish sporting event, held at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center located on the Sanford L. Ziff Campus, 18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach.

The games, which opened on Saturday night, November 21, will run through Sunday, November 29, including Thanksgiving Day.  Most participants are from our local South Florida community and register to play on teams representing country of origin.  Among this year's teams are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, United States, and Venezuela.

Pictured above is a children's basketball game featuring Team Argentina vs. Team Venezuela, one of the more than 700 scheduled games highlighting this year's competition.

For information about Hebraica's XXVIII Annual Maccabi Games, call 305-932-4200, ext. 119.

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The Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center/Sanford L. Ziff Campus is dedicated to the enrichment of Jewish life and fosters the spiritual, emotional, and physical development of its individual members through all of life’s stages and circumstances. The MAR-JCC represents a model of acceptance, understanding and diversity. As such, people look at the MAR-JCC as a center of excellence that epitomizes how shared Jewish values support a vibrant and evolving constituency. The MAR-JCC is a beneficiary agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the United Way of Miami-Dade County, and a member of the Jewish Community Center Association of North America.