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Article: Team refuses to take off yarmulkas, forfeits game
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- February 7, 2000
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
02-07-2000
Team refuses to take off yarmulkas, forfeits game
NEW YORK (JTA) -- A referee in Virginia has slam-dunked a local Jewish
school basketball team.
The team from the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, made up of sixth-through
eighth-graders, forfeited a game last week after the referee told six of
its players they could not wear their yarmulkas on the court.
The wearing of yarmulkas is "not something we are going to be flexible on,"
the coach for the academy, Nathan Drory, was ...