He was born in the Lower East Side of New York ,December 23 1909, Barnet David Rasofsky. Barnet would grow up in Chicago, dreaming of being a Talmudic Scholar and Hebrew teacher. Those dreams would ...

People cave in or submit to peer pressure. They are very rarely described as thriving or improving because of it. Royston Barney-Smith puts his progress solely down to the habits he observes every day ...

If Barney Ross hadn’t existed, Clifford Odets would have needed to invent him. Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky, was the child of pious Eastern European Jewish immigrants who had settled in Chicago. His ...

It’s going on half a century since I met my first sporting legend—and I’ll never forget the day. As a young reporter with the London Jewish Chronicle, I was sent to interview Barney Ross, arguably the ...

Royston Barney-Smith said that he "needed to step up to another gear" for Saturday's win against Danny Quartermaine. "Sugar Boy Roy" outclassed his opponent at the O2 Arena on the way to a unanimous ...

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BRITISH boxing great Lloyd Honeyghan rates Southampton's Matthew Barney as "an outstanding talent". Honeyghan is promoting Barney's Southern Area title defence at Elephant & Castle on Sunday against ...