First international Maccabi Basketball Cup

10 teams with more than 110 basketball players attended the first Maccabi Basketball Cup between 27th-30th October in Budapest where the Israeli, Danish, Swiss and Hungarian players experienced a cultural, historical, community and sport weekend. The first EMG2019 pre-tournament was opened by Motti Tichauer, the Chairman of the European Maccabi Confederation.     The board [...]

Jewish Sports heroes at the IKI

  Gyorgy Szepesi, the legendary radio reporter and sports manager, once a basketball player for the VAC, stood for a speech about Jewish Hungarian sports legends at the Israeli Cultural Institute. Many managers and athletes participated in this event, including all time women’s champion Agnes Keleti and champion Gyorgy Gedo. The president of the VAC, [...]

Register for the Maccabi Basketball Cup

The board of the European Maccabi Games Budapest (EMG2019), the European Maccabi Confederation and Maccabi VAC Hungary  are organizing the first Maccabi Basketball Cup which will be the official pre-tournament of EMG2019. The registration is available for the Maccabi territorial organizations: http://emg2019.hu/upcoming-events/basketballworldcup2016/ If you are interested in the Cup as an individual basketball player without [...]

New Sporting Equipment for the Scheiber School

  The Maccabi Fencing and Athletics club received a large amount of financial support for providing new sporting equipment to Scheiber Sandor School. They bought many sporting accessories, basketball, floor ball equipments, new balls and bats for the students. The program started by the Maccabi VAC promoting the furthering of sports education and training proved to [...]

Basketball Sectional at the Lauder Javne School

The Maccabi VAC Fencing and Athletic club’s basketball team successful took part in Lauder’s 2010 end of the year ceremony! We held sporting competitions where the children received many wonderful awards. One of Lauder’s young bright students, Daniel Stern, will compete this simmer in the United States at the Omaha JCC Maccabi games. The introduction [...]

3rd Purim Kid Basketball Tournament

In January 2014, Maccabi VAC organized the third Purim Kid Basketball Tournament. 4 basketball teams participated in the event: Lauder, Scheiber, Zuglói Sasok and Radnóti. The tournament was opened by Tamás Verő rabbi who spoke about Purim. All the teams played with each other. The students of Radnóti School won the tournament.  Several parents and [...]