Four Jewish professors say they were subjected to religious discrimination while employed at Life University, a chiropractic school in Marietta, Ga. The Atlanta Jewish Times reported that the four professors charged they were unfairly terminated or demoted and that Sid Williams, the university’s president and founder, repeatedly called Jewish faculty members “New York Jews.”
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