Hillel Kuttler RSS

in 2011 launched "Seeking Kin," his now-thrice-monthly column on people searching for long-lost relatives and friends. Hillel also writes regularly for the N.Y. Times, where his features often tackle the nexus of sports and history. Hillel served for 6 1/2 years as The Jerusalem Post's Washington bureau chief. He has earned national awards for his feature stories on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and on NBA player Omri Casspi.

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• Nearly killed in 2010 accident, a triumphant Dave Blackburn returns to Maccabiah

  July 30, 2013 10:40am

  A legendary softball pitcher, and the author of 70 no-hitters, Blackburn fought back from a car accident that rendered him wheelchair-bound to compete in table tennis at this year’s games.

• Father-son doubles pairing at Maccabiah

  July 29, 2013 11:06am

  Sam Marshall, 77, and his son Yosi, 51, competed as a doubles pair in the Maccabiah Games.

• Representing Cuba at Maccabiah

  July 26, 2013 2:37pm

  Hella Eskenazi didn’t get a chance to carry the Cuban flag at the Maccabiah Games in 1997. But her son Abel did last week in Jerusalem.

• Angarag Sandag is first Maccabiah athlete from Mongolia

  July 24, 2013 2:25pm

  The tennis player learned only last year that he has Jewish roots on his grandmother’s side.

• That’s Amar’e: Stoudemire at Maccabiah feels Jewish connections

  July 23, 2013 5:13pm

  In an exclusive interview with JTA, the Knicks star talks about his Hebrew roots, his love of Torah and his gold ring representing world peace and the 12 tribes of Israel.

• Remembering AMIA at Maccabiah

  July 23, 2013 10:38am

  Commemorations of the 1993 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires were held last week nearly everywhere Argentina’s Maccabiah delegation went.

• Maccabiah bar mitzvah ceremony proves games are about more than sports

  July 19, 2013 6:04pm

  The U.S. Maccabi delegation brings participants to Israel a full week before the games begin for programming rich in Jewish content, including a mass bar mitzvah ceremony for those who never had one.

• Olympian gold medalist leads U.S. delegation at Maccabiah opening

  July 19, 2013 10:32am

  When swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale heard his name announced Wednesday afternoon as the U.S. flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 19th Maccabiah Games, he just about lost his breath.

• Coach Jacques Demers hoping to add another Maccabiah gold to Stanley Cup, victory over illiteracy

  July 16, 2013 1:48pm

  Years after revealing that he once was functionally illiterate, Jacques Demers is back in Israel looking for more gold in his second stint coaching a Canadian hockey squad.

• Seeking Kin: Israeli reconnects with an American cousin — and goes searching for another

  July 11, 2013 3:54pm

  Tel Aviv’s Baruch Axelrod found a cousin in New Jersey, they’re staying in touch and together are looking for another cousin.