A woman claims she was fired by her nonprofit health-care boss because she wasn’t Jewish enough.
Helaine Dominguez, 69, says she spent nearly a dozen years working as director of medical services for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services until 2012, when Avrohom Adler became her boss.
“Immediately after his appointment, Adler began a crusade to ensure that staff in the departments reporting to him were comprised of Orthodox or highly observant Jews” and “advanced the careers of younger employees who shared his level of faith,” Dominguez charges in a Manhattan federal court claim.
She was fired in October 2013 after taking leave to care for her son, who had stomach surgery, she claims.
The nonprofit “was going in a new direction,” Adler allegedly explained.
Dominguez wants her job back and unspecified damages. The JBFCS declined to comment.
