Game Forfeited, Coach Fired After Antisemitic Episode at N.Y. Girls' Basketball Game

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A public high school in New York has fired its varsity girls' basketball coach after players on its team uttered antisemitic slurs during a game against a Jewish day school.

As reported by New York Jewish Week, a student has also been dismissed from the team at Roosevelt High School in Yonkers following the incident during a game Thursday against the Leffell School, a Jewish school in nearby Hartsdale. The game was stopped in the third quarter, with Leffelll players escorted off the court by security personnel. Roosevelt forfeited the game.

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