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.
Animal welfare expert Temple Grandin accused kosher slaughterer Agriprocessors of putting on a \”show\” for visitors
Following the filing of criminal charges against owners of the kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, the Orthodox Union says it will withdraw its kosher certification of the company within two weeks unless new management is hired.\n\n
An undercover video shot at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant is prompting new claims that the company engages in inhumane slaughter and misled Orthodox rabbis who visited the plant in July.
Nathan Lewin, who is representing the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, in a statement released early Tuesday wondered whether Barack Obama had weighed the evidence in the case or considered the company\’s repeated denials.
\” . . . 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
Nearly three months after a federal raid and six weeks before the busy High Holidays season, a tour of Agriprocessors shows the company is attracting new workers and trying to clean up its act
A group of Orthodox rabbis gave Agriprocessors a clean bill of health after a visit sponsored by the owners of the embattled kosher meat-packing plant
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