Lawyer in Michigan synagogue-protest case accuses judge of being antisemitic
Says it is unconscionable to order an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor to pay $158,721.25 to neo-Nazis who protested outside her house of worship for 18 years
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An Israeli company’s attempt to secure a new trial in a patent case against Amazon by leveling charges of antisemitism at Amazon’s attorneys appears to have backfired, with one of the accused attorneys offering a deeply personal rebuttal and the trial judge severely admonishing the company’s lawyer. “The allegations that were made hit right in…
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News Second employee sues Jewish nonprofit over alleged toxic work environment
A former employee at Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston filed a suit for employment discrimination in Massachusetts Superior Court Friday, the second such case this week. Matthew Lebovic, the former associate director of campus services, is suing CJP and three of the nonprofit’s leaders for what he alleged in the complaint was disability discrimination and…
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News CJP employee sues for discrimination in Boston
An employee at Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies filed suit in Massachusetts Superior Court Wednesday, alleging that the nonprofit Jewish federation discriminated against him for his religion and sex, and retaliated against him for taking parental leave. Zachary Kogan is suing CJP and Kimberlee Schumacher, the vice president of partnership and services, whom Kogan said in…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Cop Claims He Was Fired for Being Jewish
A Jewish former police officer claimed in a lawsuit that he was illegally fired because of his religion, NJ.com reported last week. Bergen County, New Jersey police officer Gary Bendit was dismissed from his job in 2017 along with 26 others by Sheriff Michael Saudino after the merger of the county’s police department and sheriff’s…
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Fast Forward ‘Hired Goons,’ Intimidating Rottweiler Cited In Synagogue Lockout Lawsuit
Hired goons. A rottweiler. Sabotage. Coney Island. If you think this sounds like the plot from a classic crime epic about Brooklyn, you’d be right. But also these things relate to an ongoing lawsuit alleging one group’s “takeover” of a synagogue in the sleepy neighborhood of Seagate, at the far western edge of Coney Island….
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Wears Yellow Star And Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ In Protest
Laura Loomer reportedly donned a yellow star and handcuffed herself to a Twitter office building in New York to protest what she calls its discrimination against conservative figures. “Twitter is upholding sharia when they ban me for tweeting facts about sharia law,” Loomer shouted on a livestream of her protest, referring to Islamic law. The…
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The Schmooze Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Will Pay $145K After Claiming Benefits of Vaginal Eggs
The great war over whether or not women should shove egg-shaped items into their vaginas for health benefits rages on, with Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company Goop retreating from battle after losing a lawsuit that said Goop made scientifically unsubstantiated claims about the vagina eggs, as well as a tincture of essential oils. Goop settled for…
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