A former executive at a German-owned magazine giant says his boss expressed unhappiness with a preponderance of Jewish senior staffers. Daniel Brewster, who until January was the U.S. chief executive for Gruner and Jahr, asked his boss, Axel Ganz, to reschedule a meeting around Rosh Hashanah last year because most senior staff wouldn’t be able to attend, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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