By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar: "I am confident that we will meet here next year with a stronger and braver Israel than ever before.”
American got over Katrina, the Clintons, Bush, and Superstorm Sandy. It even has survived Obama. But its golden age is over. Israel beat the US at its own game, the National Pastime, at the Maccabiah Games
The 19th Maccabiah got under way on Thursday, and for the first time in 81 years, Jerusalem hosted the "Jewish Olympics".