Riva Jewelry Manufacturing (official website) is a custom jewelry design and fabrication company based in Long Island, NY which is presently involved in a NY State EEOC case which involves a potential case of religiously motivated discrimination.

Specifically, Ted Doudak (president of Riva Jewelry Manufacturing) has been ordered to testify in regard to his belief that "gays and lesbians are...doomed to eternal damnation" in regards to a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims to have been terminated due to revealing he was gay to Doudak. (The lawsuit is being filed under New York State's Fairness law, which prohibits employment and housing discrimination to LGBT people (among others).)

According to this newspaper article, Doudak would regularly espouse "Bible-based homophobic views" in the workplace and directed the employee (filing the lawsuit) to deal with two gay representatives from Tiffany's as Doudak did not want to have direct contact with them due to their sexual orientation. (At this time, Doudak was not aware of the employee's sexual orientation.)

Reportedly, Doudak found a magazine geared towards the lesbian community on the desk of the employee in question (the employee had picked it up for his daughter whom is a lesbian) and began denigrating LGBT people after questioning the employee about the magazine (the employee noted it was for his daughter); when the employee noted he was proud of his daughter, Doudak picked up a Bible and began a sermon, quoting verses indicating that LGBT people are "doomed to eternal damnation."

Doudak terminated the employee the next day, claiming grounds of poor work performance; however, the employee in question has documentation that he had never been written up for performance issues and in fact had exemplary reviews beforehand. The ex-employee has since filed suit under the New York City and New York State Fairness ordinances on grounds of unlawful termination.

Doudak has been very uncooperative in the case so far; during the discovery process, Doudak refused to respond to three written interrogatories posed by Fairchild's attorney (in regard to whether he believes that "homosexuality is a sin against God"; whether he believes that "gays and lesbians are doomed to eternal damnation"; and whether he "regards homosexuals as repulsive"). Doudak has since been ordered to answer these questions in court.

Doudak has used a "religious discrimination" argument to attempt to fight the discovery request; in response to the discovery request by the ex-employee's attorney, Todd J. Krakower (Doudak's attorney) responded with a motion for a protective order barring inquiries about his client's religious beliefs. (This was denied by the courts.) Of note, Krakower is a specialty lawyer in defenses against EEOC claims.

Ted Doudak is apparently a contributor to the American University of Beirut's alumni association; this (in conjunction with the above court case) is strong circumstantial evidence that he may be involved in neopente groups associated with the Assemblies of God, whom have historically used Beirut as a base of operations to conduct missionary activities from in targeting the Middle East (including Israel). Doudak apparently earned a Bachelorate of Business Administration from AUB in 1984, which would be the same period where Assemblies missionaries were heavily targeting Israel from Lebanon (Voice of Hope Jerusalem, a dominionist broadcasting front linked with the Assemblies, and Book of Hope (a division of the Assemblies of God's international publishing wing and a major recipient of funding from Hobby Lobby, were both based in Beirut at the time).