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[eretzyisrael]

By Deirdre Bardolf

This was flagrant and foul.

A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.

The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.

“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.

From the outset, there was hostility and aggression with “substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” senior player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for Leffell’s student-run newspaper, The Lion’s Roar.

At the end of the third quarter, her teammates were getting injured by the rough plays, and “players on the opposing team started shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us,” wrote Bosworth, also editor-in-chief of the school paper.

“I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before,” Bosworth said.

“Instead of responding to hatred with more of the same, we chose to separate ourselves from the situation and leave with dignity and pride in who we are and what we believe in,” she continued.

#leffell school #roosevelt high school #i support hamas you f-cking jew #basketball #yonkers

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by: Robin Bosworth ’24

Ever since I started school at what was then Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in kindergarten, I have always felt incredibly proud to be a part of a community that values kindness and Tikkun Olam above all else. This evening, at a Girl’s Varsity Basketball game, I was reminded of the pride I feel for our school community, and more broadly, what it means to be a Jewish-American teenager.

Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, there was a somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past. Despite this, our team chose to let their aggressiveness fuel us going into the second half of the game, as we continued to play passionately. 

However, all of that changed in the third quarter. Members of our team started to get injured from the other team’s physical style of play. At the end of the quarter, players on the opposing team started shouting “Free Palestine” and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us. Attacking a team because of their school’s religious association is never acceptable, but especially due to the current war in Israel and the world’s rise in antisemitism, this felt extremely personal to me and many members of my team. I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before. At the end of a basketball game, it is customary to shake hands with every member of the opposing team, to signify that everything that happened during the game was in fact just a part of the game. Despite our conflicting feelings about this practice, every member of my team acted with respect and class and lined up to shake their hands. However, being forced to shake hands with and say “good game” to people who had expressed such hatred did not sit right with me afterwards. If a team shows blatant disrespect towards my team and our school community’s values, it should not be tolerated or forgotten immediately following the game. 

Although this experience was certainly eye-opening for me, it truly reminded me of the importance of the incredibly supportive community that Leffell has cultivated. I was so impressed with my teammates for coming together and deciding that we did not want to continue this game after the third quarter, as it no longer felt respectful as the other team did not show sportsmanlike conduct. Instead of responding to hatred with more of the same, we chose to separate ourselves from the situation and leave with dignity and pride in who we are and what we believe in. I have never felt luckier or more honored to be a part of the Leffell community as we stand with each other in support of what we feel is most important. 

#antisemitism #basketball #basketball game #high school basketball #solomon schechter school #westchester #roosevelt high school #yonkers

[beardedmrbean]

This was flagrant and foul.

A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.

The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.

“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.

From the outset, there was hostility and aggression with “substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” senior player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for Leffell’s student-run newspaper, The Lion’s Roar.

At the end of the third quarter, her teammates were getting injured by the rough plays, and “players on the opposing team started shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us,” wrote Bosworth, also editor-in-chief of the school paper.

“I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before,” Bosworth said.

“Instead of responding to hatred with more of the same, we chose to separate ourselves from the situation and leave with dignity and pride in who we are and what we believe in,” she continued.

Lion’s head coach John Tessitore consulted with his squad and decided to end the game, according to Michael Kay, Leffell’s head of school.

“Our team was playing on the road, and during the course of the game, a small number of players on the opposing team directed hurtful, antisemitic comments toward members of our team,” Kay wrote in a letter to the school community.

About an hour into the game, a timeout was called, livestream footage shows, though no audio is heard. The Leffell players and Tessitore appear exasperated and he consults with the referees and the other team’s coach.

The Roosevelt players are seen gathering and appear to exchange words from afar with the Leffell players. Security steps in between both teams and the refs make an announcement before both teams suddenly exchange handshakes and security escorts them off the court.

Roosevelt High School agreed to a voluntary forfeit, according to a spokesman for the Yonkers district.

Students at the $ 45,000-a-year private day school were shocked by the on-court hate.

“This is my school and it’s just unacceptable and some of the things they said to my teammates are very disgusting,” one student wrote on the NYCPS Alliance post.

Kay said that Roosevelt’s athletic director Kyle Calabro has since apologized and said “the follow-up would be swift and appropriate.”

On Friday, Roosevelt principal Edward DeChent also apologized to Kay and described the “investigative steps” that had been taken and “outlined a number of disciplinary consequences and educational responses” including the possibility of an in-person meeting between both teams.

“I am incredibly proud of the manner in which our players and coaching staff responded to this potentially harrowing incident,” Kay said.

A spokesman for the Yonkers Public Schools district downplayed the shocking behavior.

“It has come to our attention that a student-athlete made a statement involving ‘free Palestine,'” the district said. “This incident was promptly addressed in line with our district’s policies and values.” ___________________-

Update

Yonkers high school boots girls' basketball coach, player after teens subjected to antisemitic attacks during game

#nunyas news #bet that the opponent will say they can't be racist #or Antisemitic

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High school girls' basketball game aborted in New York amid antisemitic slurs | The Times of Israel

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This kind of antisemitic hate is disgusting and shameful, especially during a high school basketball game.

We cannot stay silent and allow our schools to become breeding grounds for antisemitism or hate of any kind.

#israel #gaza #anti zionisim #antisemitism #palestine #anti zionism ≠ antisemitism #jewish ≠ zionist #hamas ≠ palestine #jewish ≠ israel #pro palestine ≠ antisemitism #palestinians #isreal #israel palestine conflict #free palestine #israel hamas war #hamas massacre #hamas is isis #netanyahu #hamas war crimes #benjamin netanyahu #they are not okay rn #Check on your Jewish and Muslim friends #politics #against antisemitism #they are terrified #hamas attack #against Islamophobia #Fuck the free Palestine movement #it’s because of the fauxgressives who turned it into a pro Hamas movement #admiralpaco

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High School Girls Basketball Game in New York Cancelled After Antisemitic Slurs Hurled at Jewish Players-“I Support Hamas, You F'ing Jew" | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

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Girls HS Basketball Game Canceled After Players Faced ‘Antisemitic Slurs’

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South Fountain Avenue Historic District

S. Fountain Ave.

Springfield, OH

The South Fountain Avenue Historic District is a residential neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, that covers roughly Fountain Ave. and Limestone St. from Perrin to Monroe Sts. and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Developed from the 1850s to the 1920s, concurrent with a period of tremendous growth in the greater community, the South Fountain Avenue Historic District encompasses an area of approximately fifteen square blocks immediately south of downtown Springfield, Ohio across the street from South High School (Springfield, Ohio). Prominent Americans like Oliver S. Kelly, William N. Whiteley, and Francis Bookwalter are counted among the district's founding residents. With the continued success of Whiteley's Champion Reaper and other district owned businesses, South Fountain came to be recognized as a premier residential area for Springfield's affluent.

The South Fountain Historic District is significant as the largest, intact concentration of high-style late 19th and early 20th century houses in Springfield and as the embodiment of the growth of the upper middle class and the prosperity of the industrial and business leaders who populated the neighborhood. Their economic success, during a period of intense industrial growth in Springfield, is reflected in the many distinctive residences in the area. Included are excellent examples of the transitional Greek Revival-Italianate, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Eastlake porches, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, along with a number of more typical turn of the century housing. Several handsome churches, small commercial buildings and a fire station are the only non-residential buildings which are original to the area.

A number of important business and industry leaders lived along South Fountain--especially those associated with two of the earliest and most successful early industries, the James Leffel Co. and Whiteley, Fassler and Kelly (later became the Champion Co.) Warren Leffel, son of the founder lived at 704. Francis Bookwalter, Vice-President and Treasurer lived at 611. Amos Whiteley, a founder lived at 509, William N. Whiteley at 1103, Oliver S. Kelly, a founder lived at 403, his son Oliver W. Kelly lived at 621. Robert Johnson, Secretary lived at 429. Other important residents included Andrew Black, a dry goods merchant who built Black's Opera House (353 S. Fountain), William D. Bayley, owner of the William Bayley Co. (521 S. Fountain), James Johnson Jr., leading attorney and mayor in 1895 (563 S. Fountain), Hector Urquhart, owner and president of the Springfield Baking Co. (1025 S. Fountain), and Edward W. Simpson, Fire Chief from 1885–1904 and owner of Simpson Lumber Co. (705 S. Fountain).

South Fountain Preservation, Inc. is the neighborhood association in the South Fountain Avenue Historic District and a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. The idea behind South Fountain Preservation emerged from hours of discussion over a kitchen table during the summer of 1976. In the fall of that year, the group was founded and began holding regular monthly meetings. Mailings were sent to property owners encouraging them to attend and air their opinions. South Fountain Preservation was chartered as a non-profit corporation in the summer of 1977. The fifteen-member board of directors was chosen and officers were elected. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1983.

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Celebrating my @mcreditor and blessing his class journey to Poland and Israel, a sacred and weighty trip that offers countless opportunities for self discovery and communal leadership. Baruch Shehechiyanu, Thank you, Holy Blessed One, for this moment of arrival. Fly safe, my child. Keep growing. I couldn't be prouder. @leffellschool (at The Leffell School) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIkxMaPMMP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Easy cat drawings

Easy cat drawings how to#

This article has been viewed 813,872 times. This tabby cartoon cat drawing is perfect for beginners and kawaii cat lovers E.

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This article has 37 testimonials from our readers, earning it our reader-approved status. Follow along to learn how to draw this cute Kitten step by step, super easy. WikiHow marks an article as reader-approved once it receives enough positive feedback. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She has garnered numerous awards including “Artist of the Year” from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist’s Guild. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. Add Cat Face Features Draw the cat’s eyes, mouth, whiskers and collar. Draw Legs Now draw the legs down to the ground. Create The Body Draw the left side of the cat’s body as shown. Next Add Ears Erase part of the oval and add triangular shaped ears. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Begin Drawing The Head Draw an oval shape. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. HOW TO DRAW A CAT EASY STEP BY STEPHOW TO DRAW A CAT EASY STEP BY STEPDraw drawing how to draw - How to Draw easy how to draw Step by Step - Easy Drawi. This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy. DeviantArt is the worlds largest online social community for artists and art enthusiasts, allowing people to connect through the creation and sharing of art.

#Easy cat drawings

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Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) is excusing the New York high school basketball players who hurled anti-Semitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, blaming the incident on unfettered social media use and arguing that the “mistake” the students made should not “follow them.”

Bowman’s comments came through a Thursday statement, which addressed “allegations of anti-Semitic remarks at a high school basketball game.” One week prior, on Jan. 4, a girls high school basketball game in Yonkers—where Bowman lives—was canceled after members of the public Roosevelt High School team shouted “Free Palestine” and other anti-Semitic remarks at their opponents from the Leffell School, a private Jewish institution. For Bowman, the students behind those remarks should not face significant discipline.

“With social media our kids are consuming difficult information without guidance from parents or educators, and we must take this as a learning opportunity and ensure our kids are taught how to critically consume content,” the Democrat wrote. “As an educator, I understand that young people will make mistakes, even very hurtful ones, but they should … not have a mistake follow them throughout their lives.”

Bowman’s defense of the anti-Semitic agitators comes as the Democrat faces criticism over his response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israel.

Bowman since the attack has blamed both sides for violence and said that supporting an Israeli ceasefire is “what it actually means to be Jewish.” Bowman has also accused Israel of “genocide,” “mass murder,” and “ethnic cleansing.”

That rhetoric prompted 26 rabbis in Bowman’s district to condemn the congressman and call on Westchester County executive George Latimer to launch a primary campaign against him. Latimer entered the race in early December following a trip to Israel.

#jamaal bowman #antisemitism #social media #anti-semitic slurs

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Reefer Prize awarded to Dr. Michael Catty, M.D.

Reefer Prize awarded to Dr. Michael Catty, M.D.

The David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence was awarded to Michael G. Caty, MD, MMM at a ceremony held Wednesday, August 31, at the Yale School of Medicine’s Medical Historical Library. Caty he is Robert Pritzker Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and Professor of Pediatrics. He is the head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery.and Chief Surgeon Yale New Haven…

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David A. Leffel (b. 1931) Oil on Artist Board "Still Life with Green Pear and Bowl", signed lower right in molded gilt frame. Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. He attended Parsons School of Design and Fordham University and enrolled in the Art Students League in New York and taught there for 20 years.

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Love, Death & Photosynthesis by Bela Koe-Krompecher  (Don Giovanni Records- book, 256 pages)

I had heard about Bela Koe-Krompecher long before I had ever met him. Knowing his history as the owner of Columbus, Ohio indie rock label Anyway Records (which he still does) plus an employee of Used Kids Records and band booker at Stache’s where everyone from Pavement to Sebadoh to every indie band in between played, it seemed, from a distance, like he ruled the Columbus scene. His new book (cobbled from years of, at times, heart-wrenching, blog posts) focuses mostly on his difficult upbringing as well as two people very important to his life: Jenny Mae Leffel (a uber-talented Columbus musician and a girlfriend of Bela’s in the early days, who left us in 2017) and Jerry Wick, the mercurial leader of punk rock band Gaunt who was killed after getting hit by a car in 2001. Bela writes about a childhood rife with turmoil (his mom constantly uprooting he and his siblings and heading to a new apartment meaning a new/different school which was tough for the quiet kid with the funny name trying to fit in in the Midwest). Alcohol is present on just about every page and plays a huge role not just in the lives of Koe-Krompecher and his two pals but just about everyone in the Columbus (huge university equals a ton of bars). Describing too many late evenings there’s a certain poetic beauty to Koe-Krompecher’s words, whether he’s describing a drunken tumble down the stairs or a gentle Autumn morning in a small Ohio town or the importance of music, which as the author states, has never left his side unlike most people. Unlike a few of his closest friends, Koe-Krompecher, came out of it better than most. A father who quit drinking nearly two decades ago and has since become a social worker, helping those in need. Love, Death & Photosynthesis is not only a must read for those of us who pored over every indie rock band in the 80’s/90’s, but anyone who questions existence and the human condition. It’s the story of being human and trying to fit in and that we can all relate to.   www.dongiovannirecords.com       www.belakoe-krompecher.com

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URBANherbal’s First Friday ARTwalk September 6th • 5:30 thru 8:00 pm “Art of The West” © Carla Sanchez Carla Sanchez grew up in a family of artists living in the Hamptons in NY. Although she wanted to study art at the Art Students League like her mother had, she was discouraged from following that path. Instead, she attended SUNY@Stonybrook double majoring in Premed and Psychology. She later went on to receive her Masters in Psychology/ Counseling. It wasn’t until 2006 that Carla was able to make art a priority in her life again. She now resides in Llano Texas with her son and her horses and teaches dance at The Wildflower Dance Studio. In 2006, Carla began studying oil painting under the guidance of David Leffel and drawing as well as painting under Sherri Mc Graw, both modern Masters in their own rights.The first three years Carla traveled to paint with David and Sherri 5 to 6 times a year. She’s been to Taos, Chicago, Santa Fe, Atlanta andTampa.Today she still paints with them but not as frequently.The expertise that they have imparted has been immeasurable in aiding her growth as an artist and a person. Besides David Leffel, Carla has studied in Santa Fe at theValdez School of Art with Kevin Gorges. Due to Carla’s close friendship with Roseta Santiago, she had the honor of teaching alongside her in Quinlan.Carla also painted with Kevin Beilfuss and Phil Starke. Carla’s greatest inspiration besides Velasquez and David Leffel has been her late grandfather, who was a well known local artist inThe Hamptons. Sadly he died three months before she was born but she receives her inspiration from the works he left behind. Carla’s style tends toward Classical realism; she is also influenced by Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro style. She believes there is classical beauty in everything; this idea she endeavors to portray in all her works. She recently returned from teaching oil painting in England. The Wildflower Dancers will be performing 6:00 to 6:30 and from 7:00 to 7:30 in the gardens I Got My Eyes onYou • Somebody's GotYour Back I Feel Pretty • Mariah El Beso • Alice Sorry • Patterns Bury A Friend • Love on the Brain I wish #art #artgallery #gardens #dance#fffaw (at Urbanherbal Art Gallery, Handmade Gifts, Nursery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B19TYuMHR3S/?igshid=2qjtavb6vobd

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