German airline staff allegedly prohibited 128 Orthodox Jews from boarding a flight because half of them had been refusing to wear face masks during the pandemic. German airline Lufthansa agreed on Tuesday to pay a $4 million (€3.67m) penalty for allegedly discriminating against Jewish passengers at Frankfurt Airport in May 2022. The passengers, who had flown from New York to Frankfurt and were trying to board a connecting flight to Budapest, Hungary, told DOT investigators that they were not all traveling together and did not all know each other.