(Editor’s note: Sol Marshall, who will cover the Olympic Games for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in earlier years coached championship municipal and Jewish Center volleyball teams in Milwaukee, Atlanta and Chicago. He was manager of the volleyball teams at the Westside Jewish Community Center in L.A. which won the national AAU and USVBA and JWB… More ▸
The name and Olympic fame (Munich, 1972) of Jewish American swimmer Mark Spitz is well known, but who was the first American Jewish Olympic gold medal winner? He was jumper Myer Prinstein according to “Jews in the Olympics” exhibition running through September in the Jewish Community Building, 6505 Wilshire Blvd. Prinstein won a gold medal… More ▸
The first Modern Olympic Games held in 1896 in Athens attracted near 300 athletes from 13 countries to compete in 42 events. Five Jewish athletes from three European nations won a total of II medals, including nine gold, according to “Jews in the Olympics” exhibition running through September in the Jewish Community Building, 6505 Wilshire… More ▸
“A separate column of armed police marched with the Zionists through (New York’s) streets under anti-Soviet posters,” according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official Soviet youth newspaper, in an apparent reference to the solidarity with Soviet Jewry rally in New York on May 6. “Can you imagine these people defending Soviet athletes?” the newpaper asked in… More ▸
The Palestine Liberation Organization will not be participating in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to Olympic Organizing officials in Los Angeles. Answering questions at a news conference last week, Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, told reporters “there would not be a PLO team at the 1984… More ▸
Five Jewish athletes are part of the 135-member U.S. Olympic Winter Games contingent now going on in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The Jewish athletes are hockey player Tom Hirsch of Minneapolis, star of the University of Minnesota sextet; speedskater Jan Goldman of Glenview, III.; dance skaters Judy Blumberg of Summit, N.J. and Elisa Spitz of Wilmington, Del.;… More ▸
French literary and political circles were stunned recently when it was revealed that in a little known article written in 1972 the eminent French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre had defended the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Monish. Until his death two years ago, Sartre was internationally recognized as one… More ▸
The Knesset Subcommittee for Sports has voted 6-1 to recommend that the Israel Olympic Committee (IOC) boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer. The IOC is scheduled to vote May 22 on whether to attend the games. The subcommittee’s chairperson, Orah Nomir, was the only one so vote against the recommendation, saying Israel should… More ▸
Israel has until May 23 to decide whether or not to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer. The decision will have political ramifications and could possibly affect Israel’s future participation in international sports events, according to Yitzhak Ofek, chairman of the Israel Olympic Committee. The decision by the American Olympic Committee to stay… More ▸
The Israel Olympic Committee will make no decision for the time being on whether or not to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer, its chairman itzhak Offek said today. He said that Israel will continue its wait-and-see policy although the United States has announced that it will not participate in the Games unless… More ▸
