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Yuri Foreman – the "Boxing Rabbi" יורי פארמאן – „דער באקסינג רבי“
Israeli world-champion boxer who studied Torah and received semicha in 2014.
Fix / add informationYuri Foreman (born 1980 in Gomel, Belarus) is an Israeli professional boxer who held the WBA super welterweight title from 2009 to 2010. He immigrated to Israel as a child and later boxed out of Brooklyn. Alongside his boxing career he pursued Jewish studies and was ordained in 2014, earning the nickname "the Boxing Rabbi".
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