Smithfield football players reinstated after hazing, say Jewish groups

Smithfield's school superintendent, Dawn Bartz, has backpedaled on season-long suspensions for five high school football players involved in "a horrific antisemitic hazing attack against a Jewish freshman student," according to the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island .

In a statement, issued jointly with the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center , the alliance condemned what they described as the "reinstatement" of the players to the team.