A Los Angeles-area teenager sued school officials, saying he suffered anti-Semitic harassment. Samuel Goldstein, 16, of Ventura County, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that a coach at his former high school said “God didn’t like him because he was a Jew,” while students and teammates made anti-Semitic remarks and Hitler salutes and drew swastikas, without any school response, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported.
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