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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
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VOLUME 72
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OCTOBER 13,1994
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COMMUNITY FEATURE
7%e Maccabi Games are a family affair
By Lynne Balaban
"The best part was supposed to be spending time
away from my parents," joked
Amy Adelman when asked
about her recent trip to Cleveland to participate in the 1994
Jewish Community Centers
Maccabi Youth Games. But
that didn't happen, because
the entire family packed their
bags and followed Amy, 15
and her sister Laurie, 16, to
Cleveland to watch them compete. For the Adelman family,
the Maccabi games have become a family affair. Amy and
Laurie Adelman were both
members of the Columbus
delegation to the Cleveland
Games this summer.
Amy, a ninth grader at Bexley High School, played on the
Columbus soccer team. "We
won the first game. After that
we lost bad. But it didn't matter — we had a great time
there anyway," she said..
Amy is not a newcomer to
the Maccabi Games. She
played on the Columbus delegation's basketball team at the
St. Louis Regional Games two
years ago. Her eyes light up
when she talks about how
much fun she's had at these
past games and how exciting
she is for columbus to host
next summer's Regional
Games.
Laurie,; a tenth grader at
Bexley High School, filled in
on the soccer team when they
needed an extra player. "I
played more than I thought I
would. It was a lot of fun, by
my sport was the 5K cross
country. That's where I won
my silver medal." Laurie's favorite memory ofthe games in
Cleveland was not only winning the silver medal but having the entire Columbus delegation there cheering her on.
"It's great how everyone comes
out to cheer everyone ejse on.
It's one of the ways you make
new friends."
Their dad Barry, who is an
avid basketball player at the
JCC, is very supportive of his
daugthers' decisions to participate in the games. "It's an
excellent opportunity for them
—- the games don't focus on
sports, but rather on sportsmanship. It's frustrating some
times, watching them lose, but
you wish them the best and
hope for the best. And you
know that no matter what the
outcome, they're having a great
time playing and making new
friends," he noted.
"I loved watching my kids
with all the other Jewish
kids," their mom, Debbie, recalled. "It reminds me ofthe
time when I was in Israel,
standing on Ben Yehuda Street,
among fellow Jews. Wow,
what a feeling that was! That's
the same feeling I got watching
the games in Cleveland. To
think that these kids, from all
over the world, say the same
prayers our kids do, that their
relatives could have experi-
At the 1994 Columbus Delegation pizza reunion party, members reminisced and showed photographs and videos from the
JCC Maccabi Youth Games in Cleveland, August 14-18: (seated,
1. to r.) Slmona Covel, Laurie Adelman, Amy Adelman, Ruth
Vesler, Nil! Tails, Elena Grossman, Megan Marstan, (standing)
Rachel Solove, 8am Goldberg, Amy Baden, Debra Karas, Rebekah Green, Todd Huffman, Mike Klapper.
enced the same things our relatives did. I sat next to a family from England, who were
watching their daughter compete, and I knew that even
though we were from completely different places, we
were thinking the same
thoughts and feeling the same
emotions.
"I would have paid anything for them to go and be a
part of this," Debbie added.
"These are opportunities to be
taken advantage of, because
they just don't come around
often enough. And I'm really
glad that Barry and I had the
chance to be there with them."
Debbie stressed the fact that
you don't have to be a good
athlete to be involved with the
games. "You just have to want
to get out there and meet people and participate. Everyone
is happy for each other, whether you win or not," she said.
All the athletes stay with local families in order to truly
feel a part of the local Jewish
community.
"I felt very comfortable in
Cleveland," Laurie said. "The
games were more social than
competitive. And my host
family was great. They made
me feel very comfortable, not
like an intruder."      "S^
"I loved my host family,"
Amy added. "They had kill's*;
my age, which helped me to
meet other people."
Another way the athletes
met each other was by trading
Maccabi pins from their own
see OMUL* pg. 3