Congratulations to the former Giants' general manager, who was given the George Young Award for sports achievement at the 17th annual induction ceremonies for the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame & Museum at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in Commack.

The ceremony was held April 26. Had Accorsi still been general manager of the Giants , he'd have been at this offices working Day 2 of the draft. Instead, he was accepting an award named after former Giants GM Young, who hired Accorsi as the team's assistant general manager and eventually saw him take over once Young retired after the 1997 season.

Accorsi tells us he related a story of his mother's upbringing at the gathering. She was born and raised in Pitigliano in Tuscany, a town Accorsi says was called "Little Jerusalem" because around 10 percent of its population was Jewish. Accorsi said that shortly after Italy signed the armistice with the Allies in 1943, the Germans bombed the synagogue in the town.

"The Italian Christians protected the Jews and kept the ruins of the synagogue as a

memorial until a few years, when they rebuilt it," Accorsi said. "I have been there many times."

Nice touch from a longtime NFL executive we had the privilege and pleasure of covering.

Here are the other inductees from this year's class:

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