NY Assistant Principal May Proceed With Charges of Anti-Semitism

In Weiss v. Department of Education of the City of New York, (SD NY, March 29, 2012), a New York federal district court permitted a former assistant principal to proceed with his hostile work environment and religious discrimination claims growing out of anti-Semitic comments by the school's principal. Among other things, plaintiff alleged that the principal referred to him several times as a "pork-eating Jew", and alleged that the principal threatened to fire him when he no longer wanted to work on Saturdays to observe the Sabbath. His 5-year probationary appointment at the School for Community Research and Learning was terminated after four years. Courthouse News Service reports on the decision.