In re the Claim of Weingarten

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 22, 1996, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits for failure to file a valid original claim.

Claimant was employed as a teacher at a private Orthodox Jewish elementary school. After the program was terminated, claimant was found to be ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits pursuant to Labor Law § 563 (2) (c), which provides an exclusion from benefits for any “person employed at a place of religious worship * * * for the performance of duties of a religious…