European Maccabi Games

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images)

Gymnast Agnes Keleti survived the Holocaust to win 10 Olympic medals. At 98, she’s as feisty as ever.

The most decorated female Jewish Olympian of all time, later Israel’s national coach, says she “drove herself hard.”

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 6, 2019 5:56 pm

Peter Hajdú running from Prague to Budapest for the Maccabi Europe Games on July 26, 2019. (Courtesy of EMG Hungary)

Jewish athletes competing in Hungary honor 1st Jewish Olympic champion

A new commemorative headstone will be unveiled at the grave in Hungary of Alfred Hajós, who won two Olympic swimming events in 1896 at the first modern Olympics.

July 29, 2019 1:50 pm

Portraits of strength and hope at the Maccabi Games

Ten photographs capture Jewish athletes from around the world ahead of their celebratory march into the Waldbuhne amphitheater built by Hitler for the 1936 Olympics.

August 4, 2015 6:26 pm