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Ridgewood Nj, Ridgewood Schools Superintendent Mark Schwarz addressed the Diwali holiday and the Friday Night Ridgewood High School Football game . Our view is to take a que from Baseball great Sandy Koufax , who summed up his thoughts , saying that a “man is entitled to his belief and I believe I should not work on Yom Kippur. It’s as simple as all that and I have never had any trouble on that account since I’ve been in baseball.”
Koufax, the incomparable Dodgers ace, naturally was expected to start Game 1 of the World Series against the Minnesota Twins in Bloomington, Minn. But Oct. 6, 1965, the date of Game 1 of the World Series, also happened to be the date of Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – on the Jewish calendar.
