After a break of more than 85 years, Maccabi Germany is again hosting winter games.
The Jewish athletic organization is intent on bringing winter sports back to the Jewish sporting world.
The first modern Maccabi Winter Games are taking place from January 2 to 9 in scenic Ruhpolding, located in the Bavarian Alps.
Maccabi Germany noted that the last Jewish Winter Games took place in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1936, two years before the country was invaded by Nazi Germany. The first Winter Games occurred in Poland in 1933.
The winter games will feature a wide variety of sports, including alpine skiing, biathlon, ice stock sport (Bavarian curling), cross-country skiing, figure skating, snowboarding, and snow volleyball.