{"id":336511,"date":"2010-02-18T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b65f80970c"},"modified":"2010-02-18T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T22:44:06","slug":"boxing-champ-and-aspiring-rabbi-yuri-foreman-to-appear-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336511","title":{"rendered":"Boxing champ and aspiring rabbi Yuri Foreman to appear in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22yuri+foreman%22+site%3Alatimes.com&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;oq=\">Yuri Foreman<\/a>, an aspiring rabbi who is the first Israeli to win a world boxing title, will stage boxing workshops and hold a question-and-answer session this weekend in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The World Boxing Assn. junior middleweight champion will conduct the Q and A at 10:30 p.m. Friday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jewliciousfestival.com\/\">Jewlicious Music, Arts and Culture Festival<\/a>, where he will hold a boxing workshop Saturday at 7:45 p.m. He will conduct another workshop at 10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a genuine hero among young people,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22Rabbi+Yonah+Bookstein%22+site%3Alatimes.com&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;oq=\">Rabbi Yonah Bookstein<\/a>, the festival\u2019s founder and director. \u201cToday, with a very assimilated Jewish community, it\u2019s exciting to have people like Yuri who have an impact on the world. Yet they\u2019re firmly rooted in a positive Jewish identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs Friday through Sunday at the Alpert Jewish Community Center at 3801 E. Willow St. in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kevin Baxter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuri Foreman, an aspiring rabbi who is the first Israeli to win a world boxing title, will stage boxing workshops and hold a question-and-answer session this weekend in Long Beach. The World Boxing Assn. junior middleweight champion will conduct the Q and A at 10:30 p.m. Friday at the Jewlicious Music, Arts and Culture Festival, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}