NYC synagogue hosts Catholic archbishop and Sandy Koufax jersey to mark 60-year milestones in American Jewish history

In his first surprise for his congregation on Yom Kippur, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove brought out one surprise after another that might be anathema for a New York synagogue.

First: a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey. But it wasn’t the version worn last year when the Dodgers defeated both the Mets and the Yankees on their path to a World Series win. Instead, it was the version worn in 1965 by Sandy Koufax when the Jewish ballplayer famously skipped a postseason game for Yom Kippur.

“Sixty years ago, nobody knew where Sandy Koufax was,” Cosgrove said, alluding to contested lore about whether Koufax attended synagogue that day . “But we know where he was not.”

Cosgrove, a Dodger fan himself, said he had studied the episode and determined that “ the mythology that came to be associated