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(JTA) — Central New York’s oldest synagogue is being redeveloped as student housing for Syracuse University. Temple Concord, also known as the Temple Society of Concord, lays claim to being the ninth-oldest congregation in the United States. It sold its building for $9 million to Landmark Properties, a developer of luxury student apartments, according to…
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Fast Forward Syracuse Permanently Expels Fraternity Over Racist, Anti-Semitic Video
(JTA) — Syracuse University has permanently expelled a campus fraternity after a video surfaced of members using racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and ableist slurs. In the video, discovered by the Daily Orange, Syracuse’s student newspaper, a member of Theta Tau, a national engineering fraternity, gets on his knees and repeats an oath with slurs against blacks, Hispanics…
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The Schmooze Syracuse Coach Accused of Sex Abuse
Hot on the heels of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, Syracuse University announced late last week that it had put its associate head basketball coach on administrative leave in response to allegations that he sexually molested ball boys from the 1970s to the 1990s. ESPN reports that Syracuse police have opened an…
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