A sport in which Jews have a particularly long connection is boxing, with a legacy dating back over a century. It is a legacy that includes legendary pugilists Benny Leonard and Barney Ross, ranked ...

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, ...

View post: Jake Paul and 'Canelo' Alvarez are Only Fighters to Make Forbes List of Highest-Paid Athletes The 43-year-old discovered his boxing talent in 1995, when he was 13 years old, and grew up in ...

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 ...