At nine, his mother Evelyn remarried and he took the name of his stepfather, attorney Irving Koufax. Sandy grew up playing sports in Jewish community clubs and schoolyards in postwar Brooklyn ...

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 ...

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 ...

Retzlaff proudly wears his Star of David necklace, even during game day, and his teammates have affectionately given him the ...

The ceremony highlighted Koufax’s famous decision to sit out a World Series start in 1965 to observe Yom Kippur. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — For Jewish sports fans around the world, Sandy Koufax has ...