Maccabi is a Jewish Organisation with its mission to "Promote Jewish Identity through Sport". To fully understand Maccabi as an organisation you need to know the history of Jews and Sport well before Maccabi came into play.

In 1925 a NSW Cricket Team was invited to visit Melbourne and this was the 1st known interstate meeting of 2 sports bodies of Jewish decent in Australia. This was so popular that the next year NSW was invited back and so the tradition began.

In 1946 a formal sporting association was formed called JASA and Victoria had many "Ajax" Clubs. JASA prevailed as an organsation for decades before being replaced with the name Maccabi Australia sometime around the beginning of the 80's.

Lou Rose MBE - so long the Patron of NSW and known as the "Father of Maccabi" took the 1st team to Israel way back in the late 50's - a logo designed by Lou is now used as the Olympic Israeli Symbol.

Maccabi is affiliated to the Maccabi World Union based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In 2007 Maccabi NSW joined the Jewish Communal Appeal family of organisations, asﾠJCA's 19 member organisation.

http://www.maccabi.com.au