May 6, 2010

Boxers are in style (video)

Seems like interviewing Jewish boxers is the in thing right now. The other day was Yuri Foreman on Jimmy Kimmel, and now we have Dmitriy Salita:



and then there is another video profile of Yuri Foreman:

5 comments:

  1. This morning I davened at the shteibelach in RBS-B and a choosid asked me if I would like the zechus of driving 4 avreichim to cheftziba, because they are trying to take a body for autopsy.

    I declined.

    Here is what happened:

    http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3885685,00.html

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  2. The violence involved is unbelievable.
    Maybe they are afraid that they'll find out why the child really died.
    Maybe they love violence.

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  3. future comments about the death and violence should please be on the newer post, specifically on that topic.

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  4. The law says you are jewish if your mother is jewish. Yuri Foreman's mother is not jewish. Yes, he converted, however, he continued to fight on Shabbath throughout his boxing career. So, what's the point of conversion?

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  5. I just feel like pointing out that we don't lay teffilin on Shabbat, so the transition between teffilin and ten-ounce gloves isn't going to be so poetically drastic.

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