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.

Previously, both organizations had understood that the district had suspended the players for the remainder of the team's season.

But on Wednesday, Oct. 22, the freshman player who was subjected to the hazing went to practice and "discovered the football players involved in the incident were dressed and ready to play," according to the

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