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McCormick stopping spice sales to Iran

Spice giant McCormick has agreed to stop selling its spices to Iran, following the efforts of a Baltimore Jewish activist. Jay Bernstein, an attorney and community activist, read in The New York Times article last December that despite sanctions against Iran, the U.S. Treasury was still allocating licenses to American companies to conduct business with the Islamic Republic. One of those companies, he learned, was the Baltimore-based McCormick & Co., founded in 1889 by a Jewish immigrant.

The Jewish Tax

Every April 15, we are reminded that many of the things we hold dear literally don\’t come cheap. Democracy demands its pound of flesh, or its 30 percent, and on Tax Day the bill comes due.

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