On Jan. 14 this year, Mohammed Zouarh, vice president of the French Judo Federation (FFJDA), addressed the dozens of judoka gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. “Master Kawaishi’s ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — When he immigrated to Israel from his native Ukraine in the early 1990s, judo master Igor Romanitsky was already resigned to quitting the sport professionally and pursuing a ...

“If you could help me at all right now, please.” Jack doesn’t have many memories of Yone, the judo master that old-timers still bring up to him at international events. He thinks of him as ...

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