but each and every lawyer in the New York State Legislature and in the Governor's Mansion, loudly, proudly and unabashedly tells Jews and all other infidels that their shall be no betting at Nassau OTB, a public benefit corporation, on Roman Catholic Holy Days. The Eastern Orthodox Church being an inferior Christian group is accorded no deference. NY Const Art 1, Sec. 3 barring State religious preference is of no moment.
Even a California Lawyer knows that the world is not fair and that one must fight as needed. Sadly The New York Times must travel to a California college when it need only look at the religious preference and discrimination in its own backyard.
May NYC OTB rest in piece in bankruptcy court heaven.
We want to bet, work and/or pray as we wish.
Won't someone please help us?
HI-
Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you
a copy, if you give me a mailing address.
Claude Solnik
(631) 913-4244
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a
crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a
solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and
Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on
those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from
out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson
Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He
added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make
money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic
Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek
Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for
the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open
for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm
Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf
Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences.
New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was
about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases
By ADAM NAGOURNEYMARCH 5, 2015
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LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at
the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of
Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer
someday, to the council’s Judicial Board.
Until it came time for questions.
“Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish
community,” Fabienne Roth, a member of the Undergraduate Students
Association Council, began, looking at Ms. Beyda at the other end of the
room, “how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased
view?”
For the next 40 minutes, after Ms. Beyda was dispatched from the room,
the council tangled in a debate about whether her faith and affiliation
with Jewish organizations, including her sorority and Hillel, a popular
student group, meant she would be biased in dealing with sensitive
governance questions that come before the board, which is the campus
equivalent of the Supreme Court.
The discussion, recorded in written minutes and captured on video,
seemed to echo the kind of questions, prejudices and tropes —
particularly about divided loyalties — that have plagued Jews across the
globe for centuries, students and Jewish leaders said.
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Rachel Beyda, a sophomore at U.C.L.A., was appointed to a student
council board after it debated her Jewish background. Credit Emily Berl
for The New York Times
The council, in a meeting that took place on Feb. 10, voted first to
reject Ms. Beyda’s nomination, with four members against her. Then, at
the prodding of a faculty adviser there who pointed out that belonging
to Jewish organizations was not a conflict of interest, the students
revisited the question and unanimously put her on the board.
But in the weeks since, that uncomfortable debate has upended this
campus of 29,600 students that has long been central to the identity of
Los Angeles. It has set off an anguished discussion of how Jews are
treated, particularly in comparison with other groups that are more
typically viewed as victims of discrimination, such as African-Americans
and gays and lesbians.
The session — a complete recording of which has been removed from
YouTube — has served to spotlight what appears to be a surge of hostile
sentiment directed against Jews at many campuses in the country, often a
byproduct of animosity toward the policies of Israel. This is one of
many campuses where the student council passed, on a second try and
after fierce debate, a resolution supporting the Boycotts, Divestment
and Sanctions movement aimed at pressuring Israel.
“We don’t like to wave the flag of anti-Semitism, but this is
different,” Rabbi Aaron Lerner, the incoming executive director of the
Hillel chapter at U.C.L.A., said of the vote against Ms. Beyda. “This is
bigotry. This is discriminating against someone because of their
identity.”
Reports of anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish sentiment have been on the rise
across the country in recent years, especially directed at younger Jews,
researchers said. Barry A. Kosmin, a Trinity College researcher and a
co-author of a study issued last month that found extensive examples of
anti-Semitism directed at college students, said he had not come across
anything as striking as what happened at U.C.L.A.
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“It’s egregious and startling,” Mr. Kosmin said. “If they had used this
with any other group — sexual, racial, any kind of identity group — they
would have realized it was illegal.”
Ms. Beyda, 20, who is from Cupertino and is president-elect of the
Jewish sorority Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, said she did not want to comment
on her confirmation hearing because of her role on the Judicial Board,
whose duties include hearing challenges to the constitutionality of
actions of the council.
“As a member of the Judicial Board, I do not feel it is appropriate for
me to comment on the actions of U.C.L.A.’s elected student government,”
she said by email.
The four students who opposed her wrote a letter of apology to the
campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin. “Our intentions were never to attack,
insult or delegitimize the identity of an individual or people,” they
wrote. “It is our responsibility as elected officials to maintain a
position of fairness, exercise justness, and represent the Bruin
community to the best of our abilities, and we are truly sorry for any
words used during this meeting that suggested otherwise.”
Ms. Roth, in an email Thursday evening, expressed distress about the
episode. “I have already apologized profusely for what happened during
our council meeting and I deeply regret how I phrased my questions to
Rachel,” she said.
The university’s chancellor, Gene D. Block, issued a statement
denouncing the attacks on Ms. Beyda. “To assume that every member of a
group can’t be impartial or is motivated by hatred is intellectually and
morally unacceptable,” he said. “When hurtful stereotypes — of any
group — are wielded to delegitimize others, we are all debased.”
In an interview on Thursday, Chancellor Block said he viewed this as “a
teaching moment. These are students that are learning about governance. I
think they all learned about what’s appropriate and what’s not
appropriate. The campus has come together on this.”
Yet some Jewish leaders here questioned whether Mr. Block or the
students appreciated the meaning of the event. John L. Rosove, the
senior rabbi at Temple Israel of Hollywood, said the incident “reflects
something deeper, more troubling, insidious, and pervasive not just at
U.C.L.A. but on college campuses nationwide.”
“I am not one who sees anti-Semites lurking under every bed,” he wrote
in his blog. “I am not a fear-monger. I do not believe that all
criticism of Jews or the state of Israel is necessarily anti-Semitic.”
“Yet,” he said, “our inability to use the term anti-Semitism when it
concerns Jews, when we don’t have a problem calling other forms of
ethnic and religious bigotry what it is, raises disturbing questions
about prevalent attitudes towards Jews, Judaism, Zionism, and the state
of Israel.”
The president of the student council, Avinoam Baral, who had nominated
Ms. Beyda, appeared stunned at the turn the questioning took at the
session and sought at first to rule Ms. Roth’s question out of order. “I
don’t feel that’s an appropriate question,” he said.
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In an interview, Mr. Baral, who is Jewish, said he “related personally to what Rachel was going through.”
“It’s very problematic to me that students would feel that it was
appropriate to ask that kind of questions, especially given the long
cultural history of Jews,” he said. “We’ve been questioned all of our
history: Are Jews loyal citizens? Don’t they have divided loyalties? All
of these anti-Semitic tropes.”
He called Ms. Beyda a “stand-out applicant,” with strong grades,
interest and experience in the law. The students who voted against her
also praised her credentials, but kept returning to questions about
whether she could set aside her religious affiliation when ruling on
issues before the council.
Rachel Frenklak, who is Ms. Beyda’s roommate and president of the
sorority, said she had gone to the meeting expecting an enjoyable night
watching her “best friend” get approved, and was stunned at what she
witnessed.
“I swear the word Israel was not said once,” she said Thursday. “It was
all about Jewish affiliations. It didn’t leave any doubt that what this
is, is anti-Semitism. There has to be recognition that there is
anti-Semitism on the campus, and it manifested itself first with the
anti-Israel stuff.”
The boycott resolution, and the battle it set off here, was not
explicitly mentioned but was described by her and others as setting the
subtext for the episode.
“The overall culture of targeting Israel led to targeting Jewish
students,” said Natalie Charney, student president of the U.C.L.A.
chapter of Hillel. “People say that being anti-Israel is not the same as
being anti-Semitic. The problem is the anti-Israel culture in which we
are singling out only the Jewish state creates an environment where it’s
O.K. to single out Jewish students.”
Correction: March 5, 2015
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article
misstated the number of members on the Undergraduate Students
Association Council. It has 14 members, not seven.
HI-
Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you
a copy, if you give me a mailing address.
Claude Solnik
(631) 913-4244
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a
crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a
solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and
Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on
those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from
out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson
Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He
added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make
money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic
Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek
Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for
the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open
for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm
Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf
Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences.
New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was
about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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Apr 13, 2003 - For the first time in history, New York City Off-Track
Betting announced yesterday it plans to open today, Palm Sunday, to
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Daily News
Apr 14, 2003 - New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday,
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The Saratogian
Jan 23, 2009 - SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Off Track Betting officials say the
plan to push for legislation that would allow them to stay open on Palm
Sunday.
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