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Lawsuit in America: "I Was Fired Because I'm a Jew"
In New York, a law suit was filed against a law office that fired a chareidi Jew because of his religion. "They called me Jew-boy."
Reb Shmuel Lampner, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, is suing the "Pryor Cashman" law offices, where he was employed for seven years. Lampner claims that he was a victim of anti-Semitism.
According to Lampner, for a period of six years, beginning in 2000, he had a wonderful work relationship with his employers at the law firm, and he performed all his work-related tasks in a satisfactory manner. He was treated with respect by the office manager, and made excellent progress in his profession. Lampner had an especially good relationship with his personal supervisor at the office.
However, Lampner claims, everything changed in 2006, 6 years after he had begun working for the firm. A new supervisor was hired, who from the very beginning made life hard for Lampner. Their relationship deteriorated, and according to Lampner, he was moved from his private office to a cubicle, he was given for the first time a negative evaluation, and then was eventually asked to look for another place of employment.
Lampner says that he was treated unfairly, and discriminated against simply because he is a Jew. As proof, he has told the court that one of the staff members in his office went as low as to call him "Jew-boy".
Good progress was made in Lampner's favor this week, when the judge of the Brooklyn Supreme Court denied a request by Pryor-Cashman to dismiss the case. The first hearing is scheduled to take place soon, and the judge will decide whether or not Lampner should be compensated for the suffering he has been subjected to.
The firm's managing partner, co-defendant Ronald H. Shechtman – the very same individual Lampner accuses of calling him a "Jewboy – said in an interview, "The allegations are merely an attempt to cover up an unsatisfactory employment history. This firm employs numerous Orthodox Jewish partners and employees and discriminates against none of them."
(R. Waxman contributed to this report)
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