Maccabi, the Jewish sports organization in The Netherlands, has decided to admit non-Jewish members in the hope of improving the football team and moving it out of last place, said Maccabi chairman Simon Pront in a Dutch newspaper interview. Another reason, Pront said, is that Maccabi members fairly regularly marry non-Jews whose relatives then desire to join the team but have been unable to do so under the old rules.
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