The President and First Lady have invited Basketball Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman to the White House in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.
Lieberman will join other prominent Jewish Americans at a reception with President Obama and his family on May 27.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for me and I look forward to visiting the White House [...]
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NATIONAL JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INDUCTION CEREMONY SLATED FOR APRIL 18, 2010
Commack, NY- Seven distinguished people in the world of sports will be inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Museum at the 18th annual induction ceremony on April 18, 2010 at 10:30am at The Suffolk [...]
Coach Bruce Pearl of the Tennessee Volunteers was named the 2010 Red Auerbach Coach of the Year during a ceremony at the Final 4 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Red Auerbach Award is given annually to the nation’s top Jewish college coach, as voted on by the members of the Jewish Coaches Association (JCA).
The award [...]
MIAMI (FL) — The five finalists for the 2010 Red Auerbach College Coach of the Year Award were announced on Monday.
Three of the finalists, Josh Pastner (Memphis), Keith Dambrot (Akron) and Brad Greenberg (Radford), lead their teams to second place conference finishes during the regular season. Two of the finalists, Bruce Pearl (Tennessee) and Seth [...]
The Jewish Coaches Association (JCA) will host its annual meeting at Shapiro’s Delicatessen - Downtown Indianapolis on Saturday, April 3 at 9:45am. Please join us as we celebrate Passover and the 2009-10 season over breakfast at one of the nation’s best Jewish Delis!
All are welcome!
Shapiro’s Downtown
808 S Meridian St
Indianapolis, IN 46225
317.631.4041
By: Brian ‘Shifty’ Schiff
In the NCAA Tournament:
Tennessee:
Bruce Pearl, Head Coach
USA Open Maccabiah ’09 (Head Coach)
Steven Pearl – 27 games, 10.7 min, 1. 4 pts, 1. 3 rebounds
USA Open Maccabiah ’09
Villanova:
Jason Donnelly: Assistant Coach
UC Santa Barbara:
Jordan Weiner — started 10 games, 14.3 minutes, 3.0 pts
Siena:
Adam Chaskin, Assistant Coach
Greater Washington Maccabi; [...]
To college basketball fans, the recent hardwood battles between the University of Tennessee and the University of Memphis has been the stuff of legend. Most notably, the 2008 game pitted #2 Tennessee against #1 Memphis, in which the Volunteers snapped the Tigers 47-game home winning streak on the way to their own #1 ranking. A [...]
The Jewish Coaches Association took a big step in its development today as they unveiled the first design of the association’s logo. The first official logo design in the JCAs brief history looks to reflect the mission, values and services that meet the needs of coaches involved with the association.
The logo is an uppercase version [...]
Sunday October 11th, 2009
Temple Concord
There are many fans in central New York of basketball both for Syracuse University and the NBA. Temple Concord is honored to have one of the greatest 50 NBA players of all time as a member – Dolph Schayes. His son, Danny, played for the Syracuse Orange and was in the [...]
The 18th World Maccabiah Games were held this past July in Netanya, Israel. The games are held every four years in a similar fashion to the Olympics. It is an international Jewish sporting event where any Jewish person is eligible to compete at three different levels. They are “Open,” “Juniors,” and “Masters.”
The event is the [...]
The Jewish Coaches Association was founded in 2006. The organization supports Jewish-American college, high school and youth basketball coaches around the United States.
