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, Your Content has learned . Roberto and Elena Birman were flying from Miami to Newark on August 12. The couple had few belongings with them, including a bag with a prayer shawl. A flight attendant spotted it and asked them to put it under the seat, but they refused because it would be a ‘disgrace’ to their Orthodox Jewish religion. They were...
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