The Conservative movement released a policy statement and guidelines for its much-anticipated ethical kashrut certification, outlining the social justice standards companies are expected to meet if their foodstuffs are to qualify for the designation
Witnesses at recent congressional hearings described the federal immigration raid on the country\’s largest kosher plant as a travesty of justice, a national disgrace and an ambush
More than 900 people, mainly Jews and Catholics, called for immigration reform Sunday and urged support for the nearly 400 undocumented workers arrested in the immigration raid two months ago at Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat plant
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.
Veteran comedy writer and producer Michael \”Mickey\” Ross has donated $4 million to endow an academic chair in Yiddish language and culture at UCLA.
An Orthodox social justice group dropped its boycott of the embattled kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, saying the company is \”beginning to take significant steps\” to address claims of worker mistreatment at its plant in Postville, Iowa.
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
Speaking out for the first time, the owner of Agriprocessors was visibly angered by the flood of charges that have imperiled his business, the country\’s largest kosher slaughterhouse
Just days after the Conservative movement became the only Jewish denomination to speak out against alleged worker abuse at the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States, the movement\’s legal authorities voted to recommend that Jewish businesses pay their employees a living wage.
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
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