Hall of Fame Inductees
Since its inception in 1962, the Rochester Jewish Sports hall of Fame has inducted over 150 athletes and honorees. They have included many fine athletes who have competed at the local, state, national and international level. Each is special to us. Each has brought honor and credit to the Rochester Jewish community.
A permanent plague at the Rochester Jewish Community Center keeps their names in perpetutity.
The committe has raised over $100,000 the last ten years at its Annual Dinner. The money goes towards supporting local youth from the Jewish Community Center(JCC) who participate in the Annual JCC Maccabi games competition at various sites in the US, Rochester area athletes competing every four years in the International Maccabi Games in Israel (also known as the "Jewish Olympics") and other charitable endeavors.
1962
- Peter Liebschutz
- David Melen
- Harry Rosenberg
1963
- Selig Apperman
- Jerry Cohn
- Joseph Geismar
- Les Harrison
- Manuel Hirsch
1964
- Philip Michlin
- Jack Neiman
- Abe Raff
- Abe Rapp
- Ira C. Sapozink
1965
- Louis Rabin
- Gabe Paul
- Jacob Rubenstein
1966
- Barney Schaft
- Morris Shapiro
- Joe (Bello) Snyder
- Harry Topel
1967
- Allen Eber
- Hy Mandell
- Ike Cohen
- Shep Morris
1968
- Lesser Erenstone
- Max (Trixie) Messinger
- Morrie Silver
1969
- Phil Barlow
- Sam Brody
- Jerry Cohen
- Abe Feinbloom
- Jack Harrison
- Irving (Buck) Pierson
1970
- Manny Friedman
- Sid Levinson
- Sam Mink
- Dave Sachs
1971
- Herman Goldberg
- Joey Goldberg
- Mike Kowal
- Ben Miller
- Simon Shapiro
1972
- Nathan Levinson
- Abe Lipsky
- Arthur Michlin
- Garson Mink
- Norman Shapiro
1973
- Charles Schwartz
- Joseph Biben
- Moe Trott
- Buddy Baker
- Julie Rapp
1979
- Merv Mink
- Julie Lee
- Buzzy Frank
- Sol Goldstein
- Morey Isner
1982
- Stacy Kaplan
- Jack Lustik
- Stan Albert
- Shirley Rosenthal
1983
- Robert Cohen
- Bruce Shapiro
- Allen Rosenberg
- Meyer Fix
1985
- Bert Levinson
- David Sarachan
- Ozzie Sussman
1986
- Rick Aronberg
- Victor L. Hollander
- Joel Sussman
1987
- Louis "Cy" Cooper
- Al Rabin
- Mike Sigel
- William "Red" Holzman
1988
- Jacob Friedland
- Benjamin Gradinger
- Michael Levine
- Richard Perlman
1989
- Ronald S. Albert
- Ira Brown
- Percy Cohen
- Dr. Ross F. Elkin
- Sanford Gradinger
- Brian Kurlander
1990
- Jody Dushay
- Mark Glickman
- Martin Nemeroff
- Dave Pasternack
1991
- Morris Weinstein
- Paul Goldstein
- Courtney Goldstein
1992
- Irwin Barnet
- Anne Umansky-Gordon
- Arthur Stoler
1993
1994
1995
- Rabbi Thomas Liebschutz
- Charles Michlin
- Howard Newman
- Ralph Hyman
1996
- Robert Bernhardt
- Joel Goldman
- Marty Lipman
- Blanche Pasternak
- Barry Rosen
- Les Weiner
1997
1998
1999
- Larry Axelrod
- Rob Bernstein
- Gary Curwin
- Homer Marks
- Ron Rabin
2000
- Jeff Erne
- Sandy Applebaum
- Steve Abramson
- Gary Robinson
2001
- Dick Chait
- Dick Chait
- Norm Hurwitz
- Larry Sand
- Dick Rush
- Naomi Silver
2002
- Dr. Ronald Kwasman
- Bruce Pinsky
- Ronald Pinsky
- Elliott Curwin
2003
- Richard Mink
- Iosif Moscovi
- Nat Goodhartz
- Josh Lewin
2004
- Pete Brown
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Leo Moskowitz
2005
- J. Scott Allen
- Max Grossman
- Alan Kerstein
- Hon. Richard Rosenbaum
2006