Jewish Teenager Charges School District With Anti-Semitism in CA

July 10, 2004

Source: The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12479

On July 10, 2004 The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. reported, "A Jewish teenager in Ventura County has filed a federal lawsuit against the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), alleging that his high school coach and teammates repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks to him and that school officials were indifferent to his complaints.

In U.S. District Court papers filed May 26 in Los Angeles on behalf of Samuel Goldstein, 16, the former Newbury Park High School (NPHS) student alleges that for the past two school years his teammates made repeated anti-Semitic jokes and taunts around him... Last fall, the Anti-Defamation League wrote to and met with the high school’s principal. 'In meetings with NPHS, the ADL offered to arrange for Holocaust survivors to speak at a school assembly,' the lawsuit stated. 'NPHS rejected the offer on the asserted basis that the students’ curriculum was already too full...' ADL Pacific Southwest Region spokeswoman Allison Mayerson confirmed this week the ADL’s involvement, but told The Journal that there would no further ADL comment since the incidents now involve litigation."