A 65-year-old man has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against his former Jewish organization employers, alleging his supervisor micromanaged how, where, and when he prayed. Marshall Garvin, an observant Jew from Riverdale, says that when he complained to Na’amat USA President Elizabeth Raider about supervisor Susan Schwartz, he was swiftly dismissed. “No person of any religion should have to go through this. It’s unconscionable for a religious Jewish woman to behave this way,” Garvin told the Daily News. more ›

An unidentified man was forcibly removed from a United Airlines at JFK before it took off last night because he wouldn’t sit down and stop praying. A San Francisco author named Ori Brafman, who was on the flight, told WNBC the Orthodox Jewish man ignored instructions from flight attendants to remain in his seat. During the minutes before take off, he walked to the back of the plane to pray, and when he continued to defy attendants' orders, they summoned airport security. more ›