Daniel Schloff, 17 at the time, recalls the Dodgers star pitcher sitting in front of him at Temple of Aaron synagogue in St.
The story could not be more famous: Sandy Koufax, a proud but non-observant Jew, declined to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World ...
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History of Dodgers clinching the pennant at Dodger StadiumLA has clinched a World Series trip five previous times at Dodger Stadium, with a golden opportunity to make it six, against ...
Insights Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell fought over contract sizes. Baseball helped lead the way with the largest ...
Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...
Chances are, if you’re Jewish and have ever questioned why you don’t go to school or work on Yom Kippur, you’ve been told the story of Sandy Koufax not pitching on the holiest of Jewish ...
Photo by Samuel Eli Shepherd “You’ve heard about Sandy Koufax, well here’s Estee Ackerman!” said Koffsky. She had just finished speaking on a panel of Jewish children’s book authors in ...
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We spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the legendary pitcher at Temple of Aaron in Minnesota. If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have ...
(JTA) — If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have never encountered Sandy Koufax. Schloff, who was 17 years old at the time and a senior ...
Not observant but proudly Jewish, Koufax decided he would not pitch on the holiday. It is a decision that 59 years later remains a defining moment in the history of American Judaism. Sandy Koufax ...
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