His Instagram feed is filled with photos of Jewish foods, he holds a challah in his profile picture and he posts frequently about Jewish celebrations and combatting antisemitism. “My manager Jake Cohen bullied, nitpicked, harassed and screamed orders at me across the studio on multiple occasions,” Gurjar wrote in a statement on Instagram detailing the allegations.Ĭohen, who has 599,000 followers on Instagram and 1.4 million on TikTok, is the author of “Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch,” published last year. The lawsuit alleges that he discouraged Gurjar from having children and, near the beginning of the pandemic, said “Oh my god, I am so scared I am going to get the coronavirus because I have so many crazy rich Asians living in my building who keep getting packages from Korea and China!” Gurjar, hired as social media coordinator, and Henry-Bohoskey, who also did social media work, accuse Cohen of treating them as maids, shouting at them and making offensive comments. Feedfeed has offices in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Feedfeed’s founders, Dan and Julie Resnick, are also defendants in the lawsuit. The federal discrimination lawsuit was filed by former Feedfeed employees Rachel Gurjar and Sahara Henry-Bohoskey, both women of color, and alleges that they experienced mistreatment and verbal abuse at the company, according to The Washington Post.
New York Jewish Week via JTA - Jake Cohen, a prominent Jewish food personality, is named in a lawsuit alleging racism and sexism at Feedfeed, a food media company where he served as editorial and test kitchen director from 2018 to 2020.
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