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The shamash: Sandy Koufax and the 1965 World Series​

Sandy Koufax pitching in the 1965 World Series

Sandy Koufax faces the Minnesota Twins in the 1965 World Series.(Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

In the long and rich history of Jews and sports, there remains one player, one moment, one feat, that eclipses them all. The cherry on top. The icing on the cake. The shamash on our Jewish sports hanukkiah: Sandy Koufax and the 1965 World Series.

The undeniable greatest in the Jewish sports pantheon, and one of the most talented pitchers in baseball history, Koufax is perhaps best known for that game he didn’t pitch. After a dominant 1965 season — for which he would win his second Cy Young Award — Koufax famously declined to pitch Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, because it fell on Yom Kippur.

That’s right: the best pitcher on the planet wouldn’t pitch in a World Series game because of his Jewish faith. Dayenu.

But the miracles didn’t stop there. Koufax would go on to pitch Game 2, holding the Minnesota Twins to two runs over six innings, while striking out nine.

The oil didn’t run out from there. On just two days of rest, Koufax took the mound for Game 7, and boy, did he pitch: Koufax hurled a complete game shutout, giving up just three hits while striking out 10. He was named World Series MVP.

The best moment of the best Jewish player’s astonishing career. A true miracle.
 
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Speaking of cultural mashups (real one this time). Canadian Jewish Bikers supporting Tennessee Holocaust Memorial. They have an event every so often and ride down to the Sequatchie Valley

Jewish bikers raise $35,000 for school

JTAA Toronto Jewish motorcycle club raised $35,000 for a Tennessee school that collected millions of paper clips in memory of the Holocaust. Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chaba
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‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair​

In the new animated series from 'BoJack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, characters don't wait for others to finish their sentences before they start talking.

Like real life Jewish conversations, cooperative overlapping is a feature of 'Long Story Short,' an animated family dramedy that explores what it means to live a full life, and, as a corollary, a Jewish one.

Filled with visual Easter eggs — er, afikomens — like ketubot and menorahs, the story is told non-linearly with episodes set in the ‘90s, aughts and 2020s, with plots involving: a row over a candle for a deceased relative at a bar mitzvah (prompting the tearing of a $108 check to the ADL); baking knishes for a potluck for prospective parents at a day school (for children named Walter and Benjamin); and a fib that leads to an epiphany during Yom Kippur Viddui confession (and a joke about the distinction between Litvaks from Vilna and ones from Vitebsk).

Bob-Waksberg anticipates many will see themselves in this lovingly flawed, supremely Semitic family, which is also queer, Black and interfaith, Conservative, Orthodox and non-affiliated.

“I think people might even be surprised by the ways in which they can relate to characters that maybe on paper, don’t seem like them at all,” he said.


 
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Volizona said:
What is wrong with you guys? There is NOTHING funnier than hitting someone on the head with a pipe wrench
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Slapstick is indeed funny, but the kind of rapid fire puns, insults, put downs, and dialogue coming out of Groucho every minute has been unmatched in history.
Here is one of my favourites
 
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When I worked in Indianapolis, my office was a couple of blocks from Shapiros Jewish Delicatessen. Great place for lunch.

shapiros.com

Shapiro's Delicatessen - Stadium Village - Babe Denny, Indianapolis, IN

Since 1905, four generations of Shapiros have been making quality meals for our family and friends in the United States, buying vegetables from our Italian neighbors; sugar and beans from Ne...
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OrangeTsar said:
Slapstick is indeed funny, but the kind of rapid fire puns, insults, put downs, and dialogue coming out of Groucho every minute has been unmatched in history.
Here is one of my favourites
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Ok. You guys forced me to look up Marx and Benny on Wikipedia. Seems like they both had a pretty good run.
 
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In the tradition of Jackie Mason and the incredible ability of Jewish entertainers to laugh at their own culture…..
 
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