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Ex-Boxing Champ Says Yeshivas Must Mandate Martial Arts

Former boxing champ Yuri Foreman has a message for the heads of Jewish schools in Monsey and Brooklyn: “It’s the responsibility of rosh yeshivas and rabbis to teach martial arts.” In a phone interview with The Jewish Week in the wake of a series of violent anti-Semitic attacks, Foreman said, “They can also teach krav […]

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A Talmud Page Of One’s Own

On New Year’s Day, Jews all over the world completed the daf yomi cycle, a program to study the entire Talmud in seven-and-a-half years at the rate of one page a day. I have been studying Talmud for over a decade, and now, at the conclusion of one cycle and the start of the next, […]

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