Maccabi Australia

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Maccabi Australia is a Jewish Australian sporting organisation. It is part of Maccabi World Union. Maccabi teams compete in many sports such as basketball, soccer (football), Australian rules football, table tennis and more.

[edit] Maccabi Carnival

Carnival is a Jewish sporting event in which children from different states and New Zealand compete against each other. It is held once every year. In 2007 it was held in Melbourne, Victoria and more than 1000 people participated. Teams from Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and New Zealand competed.

Maccabi Carnival 2008 was held in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in January and was the second carnival to be held in New Zealand.

The next carnival will be held in Sydney, Australia. The carnival will occur in January 2009 .