(Jewish Group) Temple U. rower says she will quit team & transfer because of antisemitic harassment

Shortly after their first year at Temple University began this past summer, Sasha Westrick said, her roommate began teasing her about being Jewish. Westrick said the roommate made comments about her dressing up for Shabbat and believing in God, and once asked her for money because she said she thought Jewish people had a lot of it.

After the High Holidays, things got worse. The two were in a study hall together, Westrick said, when she got a text from the roommate’s number with a picture of Westrick, seemingly taken minutes before and from a few feet away, the words “I hate Jews” emblazoned across the bottom.

Westrick, who is 18, said she looked up and asked “Did you send this?”

“Yeah,” she recounted the roommate replying. “It was almost like she wanted to see how I would react.”

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