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The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in Commack, New York, is dedicated to honoring American Jewish figures who have distinguished themselves in sports.^[1]

Its objective is to foster Jewish identity through athletics, and to commemorate sports heroes who have emerged from a people not commonly associated with sports.^[2]

The Hall has inductees in the sports of auto-racing, baseball, basketball, bicycling, bowling, boxing, Canadian football, canoeing, cycling, discus, dressage, fencing, figure skating, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, horse showing, horse-racing, ice hockey, judo, karate, lacrosse, marathon running, pole vault, racquetball, rowing, rugby, shot put, skiing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, tennis, track, triathlete, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling. It has also inducted authors, broadcasters, columnists, and sportscasters.^[3]

Inductees

Awards

In addition to inducted Hall of Fame members, it presents periodic awards as follows:

The Marty Glickman Outstanding Jewish (College) Scholastic Athlete of the Year

Awarded to Charles Altchek (soccer), Yael Averbuch (soccer), Cliff Bayer (fencing), Matt Bernstein (football), Shay Doron (basketball), Hayden Epstein (football), David Ettinger (football), Jay Fiedler (football), Loren Galler Rabinowitz (figure skating), Rebekah Green (shot put), Bess Greenberg (basketball), Dustin Greenhill (gymnastics), Dan Grunfeld (basketball), Damion Hahn (wrestling), Sada Jacobson (fencing), Dan Helmer (gymnastics), Anita Kaplan (basketball), Brie Katz (volleyball), Chad Levitt (football), Jessica Levy (volleyball), Samantha Marder (softball), Boyd Melson (boxer), Neil Ravitz (football), Amy Rosson (softball), Rebekah Rottenberg (lacrosse), Mike Saffer (football), Jon Scheyer (basketball), Laine Selwyn (basketball), and Marc Siegel (ice hockey).

The Jules D. & Pearl D. Mazor Awards to the Outstanding Jewish High School Scholar Athletes of the Year

Awarded to Adam Balkan (baseball), Stephanie Barnet (squash), Ben Belmont (lacrosse), Rachel Blume (softball), Dannielle Diamant (basketball), Hillary Framson (soccer), Zachary Greenberg (basketball), Ben Herman (swimming), Emily Jacobson (fencing), David Kahn (swimming), Jesse Koller (soccer), Jarryd Levine (soccer), Max Levine (baseball),

Jason Liberman (basketball), Sarah Lowenthal (gymnastics), Adam Mahfouda (lacrosse), Samantha Marder (softball), Chad Prince (soccer), Jon Scheyer (basketball), Jodi Schlesinger (track), Justin Simon (basketball), Mark Wohlstadter (football), and Courtney Zale (basketball).

The Dick Steinberg Good Guy Award

Awarded to Andy Bloom (shot put), Ron Carner (executive), Dave Cohen (football coach), Gerald Eskanezi (columnist), Jay Fiedler (football), Ken Fiedler (basketball coach), Stan Fischler (broadcasting), Alan Freedman (executive), Nicole Freedman (bicycling), Margie Goldstein-Engle (horse showing), Stan Isaacs (columnist), James Jacobs (handball), Steve Jacobson (columnist), Barry Landers (broadcaster), Nancy Moloff (wheelchair discus), Arthur Richman (baseball writer & executive), Marty Riger (basketball coach), Dick Steinberg (football general manager), Herb Turetzky (basketball), Lisa Winston (columnist) and Boyd Melson (boxer and humanitarian).

The George Young Award

The George Young Award is given to the person, Jewish or non-Jewish, who "has best exemplified the high ideals that George Young displayed".

It has been awarded to Ernie Accorsi (football), Lou Carnesecca (basketball), Preston Robert Tisch (football), George Young (football) and James Metzger (lacrosse).

Advisory Committee

Among those serving on its Advisory Committee are Marty Appel, Len Berman, Howard David, Ernie Grunfeld and Paul Zimmerman.

Other Jewish sports halls of fame in the U.S.

See also

References

1. ^{{cite news|last=Finn |first=Robin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13colli.html |title=A Joke Inspires a Hall of Fame That’s No Joke |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=May 13, 2007 |accessdate=August 10, 2011}}
2. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSEuAQAAIAAJ&q=%22National+Jewish+Sports+Hall+of+Fame%22&dq=%22National+Jewish+Sports+Hall+of+Fame%22&hl=en&ei=bhhCTunmLsPEgQe61ajICQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBDgK |title=The Jewish quarterly |publisher= |date= |accessdate=August 10, 2011}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/awards.asp |title=Awards |publisher=Jewishsports.org |date= |accessdate=August 10, 2011}}
4. ^Inductees/Honorees {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213180501/http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/inductees.asp |date=February 13, 2007 }}. National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum website. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/buffalo/article323969.ece |title=x |publisher= |date= |accessdate=August 10, 2011}}
6. ^The following article is about a Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductee: {{cite web|first=Aaron|last=Passman|title=Ruben Amaro Jewish? Yes, According to Jewish Hall of Fame|publisher= Jewish Publishing Group|work=The Jewish Exponent|date=May 21, 2009|url=http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18889/|accessdate=January 7, 2011}}

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