The University Hospital of New York University, which had been accused of discriminating against observant Jewish patients by charging them for kosher meals, terminated that policy as of this evening, a hospital spokesman reported today.
The complaint had been made at the end of December by the National Council of Young Israel, on association of Orthodox synagogues in the United States and Canada. Nathaniel Saperstein, Young Israel president, had asserted that the hospital’s practice of billing such patients for kosher meals was “unconscionable.” He said that Young Israel had made repeated requests to hospital officials to change the policy, but that the hospital had refused. He noted that major hospital insurance firms “consider kosher food as a normal expense and reimburse the hospital for it.” (By Ben Gallob).
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