Kerlan Family Maccabi Fund
After seeing their kids, Hannah (track and field) and Martin (baseball) compete in the Maccabi Games in Atlanta in 2019, Jeff and Denise Kerlan knew they wanted to find a way to support the program. They generously established the fund in 2020, as a way to raise funds for our Memphis delegation now and in the future.
The JCC Maccabi Games® are an Olympic-style sporting competition held each summer in North America and is the second largest organized sports program for Jewish teenagers in the world. The first North American JCC Maccabi Games® were held in Memphis in 1982 with 300 athletes. Since their inception in 1982, the Games have grown from a small pilot project in one host community to an Olympic-style sporting competition held each summer in multiple sites throughout North America. Today, over 3,000 teens, ranging from 13 to 16 years of age, participate in the JCC Maccabi Games® each summer.