Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Last updated

Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
FormationJanuary 1990;36 years ago (1990-01)
Type Hall of Fame
Location
Region served
United States
Website scjewishsportshof.org

The Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in Beverly Hills, California, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring American Jewish athletes, other sports personalities, and teams from Southern California who have distinguished themselves in sports. [1]

Contents

History

Inductee Sandy Koufax Sandy Koufax.jpg
Inductee Sandy Koufax

The Hall of Fame was established in 1990 by a group of men and women organized by former All-America basketball player Eli Sherman. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It is located in Bel Air, California, at the American Jewish University. [7] [8] It honors Southern California Jewish athletes, coaches, officials, media, executives, and others at both professional and non-professional levels. [3] [9] It also supports the Maccabiah Games in Israel, JCC Maccabi Games, and the Allan Malamud Memorial Scholarship Fund. [3]

It has honored over 300 Jewish men, women, and teams. [3] Inductees have included (for example) swimmers Mark Spitz and Lenny Krayzelburg, baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, all-around athlete Lillian Copeland, water polo player Merrill Moses, tennis players Brian Teacher and Stacy Margolin, and football coach Sid Gillman. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Hall of Fame

1990

1991

1993

1994

1996

1997

1998

2000

2001

2003

2004

2006

2008

2010

2011

2014

2015

2016

2018

2020

2022

[20]

2023-2024

[21]

2025

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Eli Sherman; Co-founded Area Jewish Sports hall of Fame". Los Angeles Times. November 15, 2006.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "About US SoCal Jewish Sports HoF, Jewish Pro Athletes, Eli Sherman, Honoring Jewish Men, Women, Sports Teams". scjewishsportshof.com.
  4. ↑ "Eli Sherman, SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Co-Founder, 74". Jewish Journal. November 22, 2006.
  5. ↑ Horvitz, Peter S.; Horvitz, Joachim (2001). The Big Book of Jewish Baseball. SP Books. ISBN   9781561719730 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "2017 Hall of Fame Class Announced; Eli Sherman, East Los Angeles — Player," CCCMBCA.
  7. ↑ Eric Sondheimer (September 16, 2013). "15 selected for Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ↑ "9 Faith Museums in Los Angeles," Universal Life Church, June 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ Danilov, Victor J. (1997). Hall of Fame Museums: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   9780313300004 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Foreman, Judy (January 28, 2014). "Judy Foreman: Surfer Shaun Tomson Inducted Into SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Noozhawk.
  11. ↑ Katzowitz, Josh (2012). Sid Gillman: Father of the Passing Game. Clerisy Press. ISBN   9781578605064 – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ "About Lenny K." Aaron Family Jewish Community Center of Dallas.
  13. ↑ Wacks, Mel. "Lillian Copeland". Jewish Women's Archive.
  14. ↑ Western States Jewish History. Southern California Jewish Historical Society. 2004 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Gabe Friedman (July 31, 2016). "2016 Olympics: 7 Jewish American Olympians to watch in Rio," Jewish Telegraph Agency.
  16. ↑ "The Australian Open Champion Who Almost Wasn't – Book Excerpt From “The Greatest Jewish Tennis Players Of All Time”," World Tennis Magazine, January 28, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Tribe to Host ITA Women's Tennis Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony," TribeAthletics.com.
  18. ↑ Sergey Kadinsky (November 23, 2011). "Slugger with Jewish roots gets NL MVP nod," The Jewish Star.
  19. ↑ "Mitchell Schwartz". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  20. ↑ "Year". Socaljewishsports.
  21. ↑ "New Inductees". Socaljewishsports.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.