Something is not right here.
A Jewish flight attendant has sued Delta Airlines, alleging religious discrimination after her employer served her a ham sandwich and didn’t let her take the day off on Yom Kippur, according to a federal lawsuit.
Sassi Sheva, a 44-year-old Israeli from Encino, California, has worked for Delta in good standing for two and a half years, the document filed in Brooklyn federal court said.
But the airline “has pursued a pattern of intentionally discriminating against and retaliating against ethnically Jewish, Hebrew and/or Israeli employees on the basis of their race and ancestry,” the suit states.
Sheva's quarrel dates back to July 12, 2022, when he was on a work trip, then Delta
He had rescheduled his flights on the day of his scheduled work, court documents said.
Delta transported Sheva to the runway in a van for her next flight to avoid delays caused by airplane noise, the filing said.
However, court documents allege that Sheva did not have a chance to eat and that the airline ignored her multiple requests for a “safety break” to obtain food.
In addition to eating kosher, Sheva is also a vegetarian. So she requested that Delta managers “stop at the synagogue for a few minutes so she could purchase a vegetarian snack,” she said in the lawsuit.
The suit alleges that Sheva's employee profile clearly stated “she is Hebrew-speaking, Jewish, and a vegetarian, yet she was given a ham sandwich.”
This did not go down well with Sheva, who also alleged that her request to remove Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, in October 2022 was also rejected “in bad faith and without any justification.”
“As part of our deeply held values as a global airline that connects the world, Delta has zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind,” a Delta spokesperson said.
Neither Sheva nor his lawyer responded to messages.
