Yuri Foreman - The New Salita?
Yuri Foreman is 27 and a Light middleweight boxer, but also, sorta, a Rabbi! He is learning at Iyyun under Rabbi DovBer Pinson. He is a rabbi studying, three-time Israeli amateur national champion, Leyla Leidecker (Hungarian amateur fighter/former fashion model) marrying, Kabbalah loving bachur!
Foreman said his studies to become an Orthodox rabbi eased the physical stress of his boxing training. But he said he set the sport aside while reading the Talmud or attending classes twice a week at IYYUN, a Jewish institute in Brooklyn. “Boxing and Judaism go side by side, because it’s a lot of challenges,” he said. “I would love to be a world champion and a rabbi.” - NY Times read more
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Fashion » Yuri Foreman - The New Salita? - April 10th, 2008 at 3:14 amYURI FOREMAN IS PROBABLY THE BEST "BOXER" IN THE MIDDLEWEIGHT DIV. HE IS A THROWBACK TO THE FIGHTERS OF THE 50′S WHO USE THEIR HEAD AND FEET AND CAN FIGHT LIKE A TRUE CHAMP. G-D BLESS HIM. HE IS TRULY SOMEONE WHO MAKES ME AS A JEW PROUD.
michael williams - April 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm