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Unsportsmanlike Conduct

On Thursday March 26th, the first round of the seventh annual Red Sarachek high school basketball tournament took place in our very own Mac Stern Athletic Center. Overall, the tournament was a huge success thank s to the endless efforts of Michael Kranzler and Ryan Hyman from admissions, and many dedicated others. However, we should be ashamed of a particular game that was played that day between Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) vs. Block Yeshiva of St. Louis. Considering that YULA was ranked #1 and Block #16 out of a total of 16 high schools, no one expec ted anything less than a blowout to transpire. Yet what did occur was a travesty.

Jewish Paranoia

In Mr. Kahn's recent editorial about designer plagues, he comes off sounding as paranoid and pessimistic as the editors of The Jewish Press. If Einstein is studying Jewish genes, whose genes are being studied at NYU? Or Cornell? Just because a study is being conducted, that doesn't automatically lead to malicious ramifications like custom-designed anti-Jew weapons.


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