A Jewish basketball team in Virginia forfeited a game last week after the referee told six of its players they could not wear their yarmulkes on the court. The wearing of yarmulkes is “not something we are going to be flexible on,” the coach for the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, Nathan Drory, was quoted as saying, adding that four of his players are sons of rabbis.
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