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Lawsuit: “They Called Me Jew-Boy”
The Brooklyn Supreme Court has denied a request to dismiss a suit against a Brooklyn law firm, accused of firing an employee because of his religious orientation. The plaintiff is demanding compensation for being subjected to anti-Semitic remarks, and eventually being fired because he is a Torah observant Jew.
Reb Shmuel Lampner, a frum 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.”
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7 Responses to “Lawsuit: “They Called Me Jew-Boy””
2. Comment from MOSHE
Time November 11, 2009 at 9:53 PM
TO #1-ur question is actually the answer,we’re “THE EXCLUTED ONES” bec.WE’RE A SEPERATE NATION.think about it
3. Comment from Daf Yomi
Time November 12, 2009 at 5:01 AM
We may be a separate nation - which we are - but if 6 years goes by and the 7th year becomes unbearable because a new official is put in charge then this needs looking into.
4. Comment from Notteh
Time November 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM
To # 1
So, maybe we should stop excluding them, when we say all these Gasmiusdige Brochos on Klal Yisroel.
The Umos would also like to have Simchos and Nachas from their children, and Rifuous for their sick.
5. Comment from Did Jew Call Me Names?
Time November 12, 2009 at 10:53 AM
It’s time for some Rodney King understandings here:
“Why can’t we all just get along?”
Amongst the rap “gangstas” they seem to relish self disparagement when they say “what’s up, my ‘n**ga.’”
In the future, excessive whining should be a crime
6. Comment from matis
Time November 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM
noteh - not our mesorah. sorry.
they may want a lot of things - who knows if it’s best for them? they’ll use money for avodah zara giluii arayos and all sorts of shmutz without even having any hakaras hatov to the beshefer - they’ll think the doctor healed them and they’ll have pritzus at their weddings…this is what you’re bentching them to have?
let’s see some teshuvah first. clean up the filth we yidden have to live in, then we’ll start talking about brochos.(im only saying this to understand our mesorah better - normally we dont make such cheshbonos when it comes to a yid who’s not going to use things the right way, but a yid’s a yid, and i was trying to explain why we dont normally bentch goyim)
7. Comment from chocolate
Time November 18, 2009 at 1:33 AM
when will everyone realize that we r in GALUS?
it’s normal 2 b called
jew boy!!!When moshiach comes they’ll leave us alone. We wont need court cases.
1. Comment from Shoshana
Time November 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM
When my Rabbi ends his sermon, with a blessing, that there should be, Yishuos, V’nechomos, and Simchas by Klal Yisroel, I know that only we Am Yisroel are included in that blessing.
So why shouldn’t the other people, the excluded ones, at least get the better job and position in the Law firm.