This year the Community Fun Run running race was organized in the Jewish quarter of Budapest for the fifth time. On that day the weather was brilliants with radiant sunshine, a real summer heat wave came into town, but the heat did not even discourage the community from participating the event. More than 300 people [...]
This year 2 of our excellent members participated at the marathon of Jerusalem. One of our participants was Zsófia Boros triathlete who won the silver medal at World Maccabi Games and an other athlete was Borbála Lakos who also became silver medalist. Both athletes said It was a outrageous experience ran through the old town. [...]
Taking advantage of the end of February sunshine, the Maccabi VAC’s recently formed athletics department decided to once again venture out and stretch their legs in the outdoors! It’s the second time we’ve met on Margaret Island, where we’ve not only engaged in inspiring activities but also created a wonderful community event. There were [...]
In 2014 many Jewish organizations and charities joined the Fun Run Community Day that is getting more and more popular year by year. Due to the hard work and promotions, 300 runners registered for the event. Many of them run, walked, some of them pushed a stroller but all of them had fun and donated [...]
This year, we hosted our second annual Community Fun Run! 14 wonderful organisations took part, which is 4 more than last year! We almost doubled last's year's attendance with 477 runners, and 763,500 forints in donations to charity. The runners could participate in 1, 5, or 10km races. The race was opened by the Israeli [...]
The last weekend of March was the host of the International Maccabi Cup in Homokhat, and the Regional Northern Championships near Balotaszallas. In spite of the bad weather forecast, more than 400 participants took part in the orienteering race. We received runners from 11 different countries: England, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Romania, [...]
The Maccabi VAC organised the Homokhat Hungaria Cup international orienteering race, with more than 2000 runners from 20 different countries, with the most from Poland and Russia. Monspart Sarolta, the first world champion and International Leisure Group president opened the race at 8pm. The runners had a chance to see the beautiful Szeged synagogue, which [...]
This April, we held out traditional Maccabi Cup regional orienteering races in Ruzsa, in the Mergesi forest. The open, daytime, normal length, regional race was run by about 200 people. The international (there were Finnish and Serbian racers as well) sector had the opportunity to compete in different categories. The race was perfect practice for [...]
With no exception to tradition, this year we held our South Plains Regional Race in Asotthalom. We had 134 runners, among them some Serbian participants as well. There were other races going on at the same time in the country, but ours was the only one with more than 100 participants. Our group won Hungary’s [...]