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Argentine Jewish boxer defends her title
Argentine Jewish boxer defends her title
People of the book (or something like that)
People of the book (or something like that)
Save the date: Nov. 17- Evening with the Jewish Stars
The Suffolk Y JCC in Commack, NY will host an evening with “current and former [Jewish] athletes, broadcasters, and others from the world of sports. Many Hall of Famers will be in attendance along with possible future Hall of Famers. This is your opportunity to meet and mingle with sports heroes of yesterday, today, and [...]
In this corner: Harold Lederman
In this corner: Harold Lederman, boxing judge
Appearance: Dmitriy Salita in NJ
From the Chabad of Western Monmouth County: Dmitriy Salita is the first ranked boxer in the world who keeps kosher, attends Synagogue, refuses to fight on the Sabbath, and puts on Tefillin daily. Salita’s family moved from Odessa, Ukraine (USSR) to New York City in 1991. “We came to America because Jews were discriminated against,” [...]
Author appearance: Binnie Klein
Binnie Klein will be talking about the history of Jews in boxing and her own remarkable journey in writing Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind (SUNY Press, 2010) at a Goodspeed Operahouse wine-tasting on Sunday, May 15, at 5 pm, held at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, in conjunction with [...]
Guest column: Salita makes it three in a row
Dmitriy Salita makes it three in a row.
Guest column: Yuri Foreman — A class act in defeat
Guest Column: Ron Ross on Yuri Foreman
Times profiles Foreman
NY Times profiles Yuri Foreman
Guest column: Alan Freedman on Boyd ‘The Rainmaker’ Melson
Alan Freedman, director of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Commack, NY, contrubuted this proile about an exceptional young man. A funny thing happened to me at the fights last night – I expected to see a few young men and women trying to make a go of it in a tough profession [...]
