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Sports How at least one Jewish baseball player has beaten the Koufax jinx and the Kol Nidre curse
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Culture Are Jews who play baseball on the High Holidays really cursed?
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Sports 50 years after making it to the baseball Hall of Fame, here’s how Sandy Koufax did it
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