(JNS) – On July 8, 2025, a new class featuring the likes of basketball’s Amar’e Stoudemire, judoka Oren Smadja, Paralympian Moran Samuel, swimmers Sarah Poewe and Helen Plaschinski Farca de Finkler, sports commentator Chris Berman and tennis legend Shahar Pe’er was to be inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Following Maccabi World Union’s postponement of the 2025 Maccabiah Games for a year, due to the war, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (known as “the Hall”) followed suit and delayed its induction ceremony this year.
“Our board agreed to follow MWU’s lead and will also postpone the IJSHOF Induction Ceremony originally scheduled for July 8 to next summer,” it said in a statement.
