The hiring of Bernard Feldman of Long Island as the kosher meat producer\’s new chief executive keeps the company in the good graces of the Orthodox Union, which said last week it would withdraw its kosher supervision if new management wasn\’t hired within two weeks.
\” . . . Isn\’t it time that every Jewish child take at least one course in Herzl? If he isn\’t the modern father of the Jewish People, who is? For without Herzl\’s many contributions, the Holocaust would have excluded any chance of a Jewish state in Israel . . .\”\n\n
Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn\’t concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East — it\’s about meat.
The Iowa Labor Commissioner\’s Office has sent dozens of alleged violations against Agriprocessors to the state attorney general for prosecution
An interfaith coalition — organized by a Jewish group — is planning to demonstrate next week in Postville, Iowa, in support of justice for workers and comprehensive immigration reform.
This week, the production slow-down at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, finally hit the nation\’s kosher markets and, by extension, kosher consumers
Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid
Brisket with Fennel and Olives; preserved lemons; Stuffed Nectarines a la Chez Panisse.
It surprised me that a company well-known for its concern for animal well-being and food safety would deem anything kosher treif, or unfit. Long before Whole Foods was even a glimmer in the eye of the Prius-tocracy, hadn\’t we Jews been telling ourselves and others that we were practicing humane slaughter and thoughtful animal husbandry — embodied in the very laws of kashrut? What did Whole Foods know that I didn\’t?
My act of civil disobedience — refusing to consume the flesh of once-living, breathing animals — has virtually no effect, perhaps none whatsoever. Agribusiness decides far in advance how many cows to raise and then slaughter without regard to my individual case.
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