An elderly Jewish couple say they were kicked off an American Airlines flight and left stranded in Miami ahead of a hurricane after they refused to put their sacred Tallit prayer shawl on the floor under their seat. Roberto and Elena Birman were flying from Miami to Newark, New Jersey in August when they were ‘subjected to illegal and discriminatory conduct’ by a flight attendant, according to a lawsuit filed on November 29. The unnamed stewardess was checking the overhead compartments when she came across Roberto’s Tallit bag, which contained a shawl worn by Orthodox Jewish men during prayer. The...
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