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No one remembers the baseball games that Sandy Koufax played. True — he held the National League record for strikeouts. True — he won three Cy Young awards. But the most important game that Sandy Koufax ever played was the game he didn’t play. Today – Yom Kippur, 2015 – is the fiftieth anniversary of […]

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Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken around one’s head as a way of purging sin, is one of those Jewish practices that doesn’t always, ahem, dovetail with 21st-century mores. The ritual has often encountered clucks of disapproval, and this High Holiday season is no different. In the United States this year […]

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