{"id":228690,"date":"2026-05-12T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:23:11","slug":"rabbi-boxer-yuri-foreman-to-speak-at-great-neck-library-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228690\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi boxer Yuri Foreman to speak at Great Neck library screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/greatnecklibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Great Neck Library<\/a> will host a screening of the documentary \u201cLion of Zion\u201d followed by a Q&amp;A session with world champion boxer, Rabbi Yuri Foreman, on Sunday, May 31.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The event, held in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, is scheduled for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the library\u2019s 159 Bayview Ave. location.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The 32-minute film, directed by Mike Musikanto, explores the life of Foreman, the only world champion boxer from Israel. After losing his title in 2010, Foreman began studying Judaism to explore the intersection of his athletic and spiritual lives, leading to his ordination as a rabbi in 2014. The documentary follows his ongoing ambition to make history as the first rabbi to become a world boxing champion.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/05\/07\/meet-the-4-candidates-in-great-neck-school-board-races\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the 4 candidates in Great Neck school\u00a0board races<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Admission to the screening is free and open to the public. No registration is required, though library officials noted that seating will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">For more information, residents can contact the library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great Neck Library will host a screening of the documentary \u201cLion of Zion\u201d followed by a Q&amp;A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[89837,7946,9,24,63,122,124,123,14761,89838],"class_list":["post-228690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-boxer","tag-great-neck","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rabbi","tag-yuri-foreman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}