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First on Fox: A Jewish student who claimed that she was partly forced from her graduate program due to her Shabbos compliance Columbia University.
The conditions of the agreement in The lawsuit Submitted by the legal project and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP were confidential, but Zibibarah Reich from Lawfare Project Executive, said that it included financial compensation and another relief.
“These results reflect the authority of the legal steps to bring about a sensible change. We are proud to stand behind a brave student who chose her rights,” said the Lawfare Project Director Brooke Goldstein in a statement to FOX News Digital.
A spokesman for Columbia confirmed the settlement and said: “We have reached a confidential settlement with Forrest for both sides, which did not include any approval.”
Columbia University made a lawsuit with an Orthodox Jewish student who claimed religious discrimination. (Getty Images)
Mackenzie Forrest, an Orthodox Jewish student of Floridaclaimed that she had been forced from the DTBE program of dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT) at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW) after asking that she was allowed to attend after the attacks by the Hamas terrorist attacks from October 7.
Forrest claimed that she visited the Columbia School of Social Work especially because of her interest in the DBT program. However, when she was the director of the program, Andre Ivanoff, Ph.D.
The student claimed that Columbia had returned to her after she had applied for remote courses for fear of her security. (Sam Nahins)
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The Jewish doctoral student received a further setback in relation to her religious practices when she informed Ivanoff that she would not be able to participate in a weekend workshop on suicide risk assessment because she fell on Shabbos, also known as Sabbat.
Although Forrest said that she could take part in the parts of the workshop that did not take place between Friday evening and Saturday evening, Ivanoff supposedly said that she would need a “dispensation” from her rabbi to take part in the workshop. Finally, Ivanoff decided that he would assign her replacement courses instead of the workshop as if Forrest informed him that he could not participate.
After the attacks on October 7 in 2023, Columbia’s campus exploded In a breeding ground of anti -Semitism. In view of what the plaintiff claimed, widespread oral abuse and a physical attack by a pro-Israeli student who was allegedly beaten with an apparently broom, Forrest demanded that she were able to visit her from afar from afar from the class.
The comparison included financial compensation and other forms of relief.
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Not only the request of the student was rejected, but shortly after she claimed that she was exposed to retaliation the university. Although Forrest was a heterosexual student, they were informed that she had the risk of failing the field internship due to her curriculum. The Jewish student claimed that she had never said that she was below average by her academic consultant with whom she was met regularly.