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Jake Paul, left, lands a left on Mike Tyson during their heavyweight boxing match, in Arlington, Texas November 15, 2024. (Julio Cortez/AP)
November 17, 2024, 8:07 am
Jake Paul brings a touch of Jewish heritage to boxing
YouTube star, who beat heavyweight pugilist legend Mike Tyson after eight rounds, had Jewish great-grandparents
By JTA and ToI Staff
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating China's Yang Liu to win gold in their women's 66kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
August 14, 2024, 7:15 pm
France probes cyberbullying of Olympic champion Khelif by Trump, Musk, others
Investigation will look into what Khelif’s lawyer called ‘misogynist, racist and sexist’ comments about Algerian boxer’s gender
By AFP and ToI Staff
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating China's Yang Liu to win gold in their women's 66kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
August 10, 2024, 3:45 pm
Imane Khelif, Algerian boxer at center of gender row, storms to Olympic gold
Khelif wins first place amid intense controversy over federation’s claim she and another boxer failed gender tests in 2023
By AFP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of two contestants at the Youth World Boxing Championship in Spain, November 2022. (YouTube screenshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 20, 2022, 6:28 pm
Iran boxing chief says won’t return from Spain contest, will ‘be voice’ of protests
Hossein Soori, head of delegation to Youth World Boxing Championships in Alicante, laments he can no longer serve his country that ‘so easily sheds the blood of human beings’
By AFP
Carrying swastika flags, the German-American Bund parades down East 86th Street in New York City before a large rally at the Yorkville Casino. (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-11748/courtesy Michael Benson)
June 18, 2022, 11:02 am
Bam! Kapow! When 1930s Jewish mobsters beat up Nazis in the streets of America
Michael Benson’s ‘Gangsters vs. Nazis’ tells how New York judge secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel to recruit army of Jewish thugs to intimidate antisemites
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez, left, is featured on the new podcast 'Holocaust Histories.' (Jeff Dickson/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 27, 2022, 3:48 am
A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era
‘Holocaust Histories’ by Canadian sound designer Jonathan Bonder is already getting a warm reception after its first episode release; the series will have a new theme each season
By jacob gurvis
Actor Ben Foster as boxer Harry Haft in 'The Survivor,' the real-life story of an Auschwitz survivor whose boxing skills saved his life (Leo Pinter/HBO)
April 28, 2022, 10:22 pm
White House to screen HBO’s ‘Survivor’ to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Film tells story of boxer Harry Haft and his experience as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where he was forced to put on exhibition fights for Nazi commandants
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Actor Ben Foster as boxer Harry Haft in 'The Survivor,' the real-life story of an Auschwitz survivor whose boxing skills saved his life (Leo Pinter/HBO)
April 27, 2022, 5:48 am
Ben Foster pulls no punches playing Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO movie
Led by Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, film debuts on April 27 and charts Harry Haft’s life after WWII, as he resettles in a Brooklyn Jewish community suffused with loss
By Andrew Lapin
Yuri Foreman (right) and his wife Shoshana Foreman run VBR Kosher, which certifies the vegan Dun-Well Donuts in Brooklyn. (Ben Sales/JTA)
December 14, 2021, 3:37 am
Former champ Yuri Foreman now ‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi,’ certifying kosher doughnuts
Even as he kept training, the former world champion studied for rabbinical ordination. Now he’s putting his religious training to good use — and promoting his healthy eating cause
By Ben Sales
Ben Foster on the set of "The Survivor" in New York City, May 30, 2019. (Bobby Bank/GC Images/Getty Images via JTA)
October 7, 2021, 11:32 am
HBO picks up film about boxer who escaped Auschwitz death march
Ben Foster plays in ‘The Survivor,’ which recounts how Harry Haft went from boldly fleeing the Nazis to a sporting career that saw him fight Rocky Marciano
By Gabe Friedman
Italian boxer Michele Broili is seen sporting neo-Nazi tattoos in a 2018 fight (video screenshot)
September 30, 2021, 5:16 am
Italian boxer with Nazi tattoos beaten by fighter of Moroccan origin
Michele Broili suspended by Italy’s federation after displaying hate symbols; Hassan Nourdine says his victory ‘was a double win’
By ToI Staff
Promo pic for The Champion of Auschwitz, based on the life of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski (Courtesy)
September 5, 2021, 9:55 am
‘Champion of Auschwitz’: New book tells the story of a boxer who brought hope
Polish Catholic Tadeusz Pietrzykowski won dozens of matches at the death camp, along with special privileges that ensured his and others’ survival
By Anna Maria Jakubek
Girls compete in a boxing tournament in Gaza, November 20, 2020. (Screenshot/ AFP)
November 22, 2020, 8:07 pm
Girls storm the boxing ring in Gaza’s first all-female tournament
Cash-strapped club hosts competition for 45 fighters, with hopes to take top contenders to regional tourney in Kuwait
By AFP
Andy Ruiz, right, punches Anthony Joshua during the seventh round of a heavyweight championship boxing match, June 1, 2019, in New York. Ruiz won the bout. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
August 9, 2019, 11:35 pm
Saudi Arabia accused of ‘sportswash’ for hosting world heavyweight fight
Amnesty UK calls on Anthony Joshua to speak out against Riyadh’s ‘abysmal human rights record’ during title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr.
By AFP
Iran's Sadaf Khadem (L), the first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing fight, is designated winner in her match against France's Anne Chauvin (R) on April 13, 2019 in Royan, western France. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP)
April 17, 2019, 11:29 pm
Female Iranian boxer defects to France after win
Iran issues arrest warrant for Sadaf Khadem, country’s top woman boxer, who decides to pursue pugilistic career in West
By AFP
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