For over forty years, JCC Maccabi® has been rallying and uniting the Jewish community around a positive, unparalleled, and transformative Jewish experience—inspiring Jewish-identity building, strengthening connections amongst a diverse, global representation of Jewish teens to one another and to Israel, and cultivating the next generation of proud Jewish leaders. And it does so through the universal lens of sport—the most inclusive and influential vehicle for teen engagement and impact. 

As the largest organized Jewish youth sports platform in the world, every summer JCC Maccabi brings together 3,000+ Jewish teen athletes and 10,000+ family members, coaches, spectators, volunteers, and leaders of all ages and backgrounds from over 75 global communities.  Although Olympic-style athletic competition draws participants to the week-long program, it’s the Jewish expression of six core JCC Maccabi midot values woven across every facet of the experience—from the Opening Ceremony to the JCC Cares service-learning program, and educational HangTime hosted by schlichim from Israel—that remains embedded within our Jewish teens for a lifetime. For our teens, JCC Maccabi serves as a transformative vehicle for engagement with the greater Jewish community, building a sense of Jewish pride, joy, and peoplehood in the next generation of Jewish leaders.