A sport in which Jews have a particularly long connection is boxing, with a legacy dating back over a century. It is a legacy ...

NEW YORK — A punch line might be expected when a boxer and a rabbi walk into a cultural center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But in this case, the boxer and the rabbi are the same person, and ...

One Sunday evening last month, two 18-year-old girls were kicking punching bags at the Jerusalem sports center, located beneath the stands at Teddy Stadium. Nili Block, whose family is American, ...

Dmitriy Salita’s unlikely rise in boxing has certainly not been ordinary. But Salita believes his story is a perfect encapsulation of the American dream. “Boxing saved my life,” Salita told The Post. ...

Good thing it’s getting dark early these days. Saturday night, after Shabbat had ended, Yuri Foreman won the WBA junior middleweight crown—after 12 rounds becoming the first Israeli to grab a boxing ...

Dmitriy Salita is a Russian immigrant, professional boxer and a religious Jew. ORTHODOX STANCE portrays Dmitriy's maturation in each of these disparate communities, and the seemingly incompatible ...

But in this case, the boxer and the rabbi are the same person, and his influence at the 92nd Street Y is no laughing matter, unless you want a right cross to the chin. Yuri Foreman, born an Orthodox ...