Maccabi Games 2002

[Jurassic Referee]

Chuck,your Maccabi games sound like a local adjunct to the Maccabiah Games-which are held every four years and have been going on for the last 60 years or so.The Maccabiah games are kinda like a Jewish Olympics.I believe that the last one was held in 2001,and the next scheduled international event is a Pan-American event to be held somewhere in South America in 2003.The U.S.A. and other countries enter teams in the various events,with the only proviso being that the participants must be of the Jewish faith.If I remember right,Australia hosted the 1997 games.
Btw,I am not Jewish but I know people who have both participated and officiated in the Maccabiah Games.
It sounds like your Maccabi Games are kinda like a preliminary meet to the Maccabiah Games.