Final arguments were delivered Monday in a New Jersey court hearing a discrimination case brought by a television journalist. Sara Lee Kessler, an Orthodox Jew, is claiming, among other things, that the management of WWOR-TV fired her shortly after she filed a complaint that the station had failed to take her Sabbath observance into account when making assignments.
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