Pine Bush Anti-Semitism Lawsuit Will Proceed, Court Says

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A lawsuit by several Jewish families in upstate New York claiming their children were victims of anti-Semitic harassment at school can proceed, a federal court ruled.

Judge Kenneth Karas of the U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., on Tuesday denied a motion by the Pine Bush Central School District to dismiss the 2012 lawsuit, which also charged school administrators with not doing enough in response to the harassment.

The school district asked the court to dismiss the cases of three of the five children named in the suit, which is seeking unspecified monetary damages. The suit also wants changes made in the district to eliminate the culture of anti-Semitic bias, The New York Jewish Week reported.

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Jewish students in the district, which is located 90 miles north of New York City, have complained in recent years of anti-Semitic epithets and nicknames, jokes about the Holocaust, being forced to retrieve coins from dumpsters and physical violence. Fellow students are accused of making Nazi salutes and telling anti-Semitic jokes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered investigations into the allegations of anti-Semitic harassment.

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1. I'm sure the families will win.