A Jewish postal worker in California who suffered anti-Semitic harassment on the job received $125,000 in an out-of court settlement. Though a federal regulator ruled in his favor last year, George Kaufman filed the lawsuit after the U.S. Postal Service refused to punish those responsible for the harassment and after he deemed a staff-wide sensitivity training program as meaningless.
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