Josh Binstock, a Canadian beach volleyball player for 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, talks with CIJnews about being a Jewish athlete, the positive effect the 2013 Maccabiah Games has had on his career and the friendship with his teammate Sam Schachter, both from Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Canada won four medals at the Pan American Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile over the winter break, seeing its entire delegation reach the podium.

Under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, Brazilian senior officials joined sports activists from Israel and elsewhere at a commemoration of the 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.  Read more...

Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter push Brazilians to the limit in Rio opener

The clock had not yet struck midnight before Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter finally – barely – secured Canada’s last entry in the Olympic beach volleyball competition.