BIAS IN THE SKIES: Frum Couple Kicked Off Flight for Refusing to Place Tallis Bag on Floor
A frum couple has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines after they were kicked off a flight for standing up for their Jewish beliefs and refusing to place a tallis bag on the floor.
Roberto and Elana Birman were returning to New York from Florida in August when the incident occurred.
When Roberto explained that he couldn’t because it was a religious item, the flight attendant allegedly told them, “it doesn’t matter.”According to the couple, they had placed the tallis bag in the overhead bin when a flight attendant took it out, handed it to them, and demanded they place it on the floor beneath their seats to clear up overhead bin space.
The couple adds that the flight attendant yelled and pointed her finger at them during the exchange.
“I couldn’t believe this was happening to me in America,” Roberto, who immigrated to the US from Argentina in 1985, told the NY Post. “We use these items every single day to pray.”
“Nobody said a word. Nobody defended us. It was embarrassing,” Elana said.
The couple was subsequently escorted off the plane and forced to miss their flight. They are now suing American Airlines for unspecified damages.
“My clients were ejected from the flight based on the prejudices and complete lack of sensitivity of American Airlines employees for reasons wholly unrelated to security,” their lawyer, Brad Gerstman, said. “The flight attendant and pilot’s conduct was as offensive as it was illogical.”
American Airlines said it is reviewing the lawsuit.
13 comments:
THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE THE MOST ST UPID I EVER HEARD OF
THEY CAN NOT CONTROL TEEIR DESIRES AND HAVE TO GIVE WAY TO ALL THEIR FEELINGS
IN COVID-19 THE COUNTRIES HAVE NOT BANNED FLYING
WHICH IS THE BIGGEST SPREADER OF THE DISEASE, THE REASON THE AIRLINES
WOULD GO BUST.
SITTING IN A PLANE WITH OVER 200 PEOPLE, BREATHING IN RECYCLED AIR .
WHAT CAN BE WORSE,
BUT MY LIFE MUST GO ON AS NORMAL
STUPID STUPID PEOPLE .
Good idea. Don't fly.
No one that flies needs you! No one that flies wants you on the plane!
Did you fly before you got Covid?
Do you think going to a Mikva, using someone else's wet towel after they wiped their tuchus and blew their nose on it is safer than flying on a plane?
Noach
Still looking for Latkes
POOR PARENTS OF YOURS, WHO WENT TO BED AND FUCKED, A STUPID JEWISH HATER LIKE YOU.
I WAS ON A BUS LAST WEEK, AND SOMEONE COMMENTED THAT I WAS A JEW
I GOT UP AND DANCED THAT I WAS PROUD OF IT
AND JESUS WAS ALSO PROUD OF IT
BEING CALLED A FUCKING YID, IS NOT AN INSULT, BUT AN HONOUR.
YOU ARE SUCH A BIG AM HORETZ THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW THE HONOUR
OF BEING A JEW IS.
A WILL ASK A MOHEL, NEXT TIME I AM AT A BRIS,
IF HE CAN GIVE ME THE FORESKIN, GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS AND I WILL SEND IT TO YOU.
Gaby,
I think you are a liar. You wont talk to a Mohel in case they take a bit more off you!
If there is anyone here hating another Jew it is you not me. Please tell me what I wrote that suggests I hate anyone? Yes, I probably am an Am Ho'oretz, I dont deny that. I'm not near as Baal Gaavah like you.
I don't like Shmitzige Hantecher. I have pity on people that use them. I also have pity on you.
I don't want latkes anymore. Ovar Zmanoi, Butal Korbunoi.
Why not try voice blogs? A lot of fun. They dont cost and are easier than typing IN CAPITALS or with terbel spelengs andyoudontneedtoputinspaceseither.
Noach
IF I USED VOICE BLOG,I WOULD WASH THE FLOOR WITH YOU
I AM NOT A BAAL GAAVAH, ASK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW ME GOIYM AND YIDDEN
WHAT I TELL YOU ABOUT MY SELF IS TRUE
PLEASE GO TO LUBAVITCH OR OSHER SAPIRO WHO THINK LIKE YOU
BUT IN OUR CROWED YOU AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU DO NOT BELONG
SO DO ME A FAVOUR AND FUCK OFF.
Baal Taavah?
IS THAT ALL A FOOL LIKE YOU CAN DO IS CALL NAMES
YES MY TAAVAH IS LEARNING TORAH ( ASK AROUND )
ALSO TALKING, AND NOT THINKING THAT A JEW IS A JEW.
And your point is?
Noach
NOACH
YOU HAVE THE WRONG IDEA, THE WAY WE LOOK AT A JEW AND CHASIDDISH YID.
IF SOMEONE DRINKS IN CLUBS OR DOSE NOT KEEP SHABBOS PROPERLY ETC,ETC,
I WILL NOT SIT WITH HIM, ON ONE TABLE ON SHABBOS, OR DRINK THE WINE HE HAS TOUCHED
AND DEFINITELY NOT LET HIM DAVEN IN MY SHTIEBAL ( SYAGOUGE ).
IT DOES NOT MATTER TO ME, IF BECOMES BETTER OR WORSE.
HE SHOULD GO TO OSHER SAPIRO OR LUBAVITCH.
PLEASE GET THIS IN TO YOUR HEAD.
Gaby,
I understand your last post. It makes perfect sense. You aren't saying that they are not Jewish just that you don't want to associate with them because you know that your Yiddiskiet is all about how much you can learn and that you are afraid that Chas VeShalom they have an effect on you or more likely others in the community because your Emina is Shvach. Lubavitch and Sapiro have strong Emina and probably think they can have an effect on them. Fine.
Can you please answer me why the Rosh Yeshiva is picking a fight with Gur and if its a smart thing to do?
Please don't tell me to F off, I cant. I would if I could!
Noach
Noach
NOACH
OSHER SAPIRO AND LUBAVITCH ARE NOT THE SAME STANDARDS AS CROWDS,
THAT I MIX WITH IN GUR ONE OR TWO
OSHER SAPIRO WANTS TO KEEP THE YOUNGSTERS WHO STRAYED OF THE PATH, LUBAVITCH WANT
AIM IS TO BRING BACK TO YIDDISKITE AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN
AND BOTH WILL BEND TO DO T RABBI YOU HAVE NO PLACE US HIS
IN MY YIDDISKITE AND THE PEOPLE I MIX WITH THERE IS NO BENDING,IF YOU BEND
TO THERE WAY,
YOU CAN BE A GRANDCHILD OF THE GREATEST RABBI, BEST FAMILY,
YOU HAVE NO PLACE BY US SCHOOLS, SYNAGOUG, ETC,ETC,
EVEN IF YOU WANT TO BE FRUM.
THIS IS SOMETHING OSHER SAPIRO, LUBAVITCH DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
Maybe Sapiro and Lubavitch do understand but don't care.
Its not a problem if you want to keep to your own in your schools and shuls
IN MY EYES AND MY FRIENDS EYES
LUBAVITCH AND OSHER SAPIRO ARE NOT RIGHT
BUT DO NOT EXPECT US TO AGREE WITH THEM
THE STAMFORD HILL CHASDISH CROWD DO NOT.
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