The American Jewish Congress is calling on Florida’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, to remove as the official spokesman for a state reading program a New York Knicks basketball player who was quoted as saying that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. Meanwhile, fans of the New York Knicks basketball team booed Charlie Ward when he took the court Sunday.
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