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Category Archives: Agriprocessors
Vegetarianism Is Now The Cutting Edge Of Fashion
David Deutsch emails: Luke Ford is certainly no stranger to virtually prescient, uber-trendy fashionableness. After all, Luke was a dreamy Aussie expat with a heretical father and a complicated relationship to California’s Jewish community long before Mel Gibson made it … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, David Deutsch
Tagged Agriprocessors, heeb magazine, julius streicher, luke ford, meat producers, Young Israel
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Rubashkins Charged With Using Child Labor
Barry emails: Why do we eat Kosher? – because G-d said so, because we ‘answer to a higher authority’. Well, the Agriprocessors and Rabashkin’s answer to an even higher authority – the almight dollar. Now they will all answer to … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged child labor law, chlorine solutions, conveyor belts, human resources division, iowa attorney general, meatpacking plant
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Agriprocessors Going Under?
From Daashakohol : Rubashkin’s meat is only at 40% of the capacity before the raid and the business is quickly going down, unable to recover from the ongoing Raids, Arrests and loss of workers. As a result, Anash are being … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged allamakee county, iowa attorney general, iowa division of criminal investigation, last ditch effort, raids arrests, rubashkin
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Situation at Agriprocessors
Lynda Waddington writes: Hispanics who worked at the Agriprocessors plant prior to the May 12 immigration raid, told stories of sexual and financial coercion. Some workers who came to and left Postville in the weeks following the raid have spoken … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged broken promises, child labor law, federal immigration, jewish workers, kosher poultry, rabbi menachem
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Can We Trust The Kashrut Of Agriprocessors?
Joe says: With regards to Agriprocessors, besides the moral debate, how can anyone trust them with kashrus? If they are tempted to cheat morally/ethically on labor why should they not cheat on the kashrut? Especially since there is more to … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged Agriprocessors, kashrus, Kashrut, math sources, moral debate
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Rushing To Judgment On Agriprocessors
I have one quibble with Rabbi Avi Shafran’s essay. He seems to equate getting the results from a government investigation with getting the facts. I wonder why a government investigation is more intrinsically likely to get the facts than a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Journalism
Tagged Agriprocessors, gross mistreatment, human fingers, meatpacking industry, meatpacking plant, postville iowa
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Is It The Job Of Kashrut Rabbis To Make Sure That Workers Are Fairly Paid?
Nobody has the wisdom to decide what is fair pay outside of the employer and employee who come to a deal. If an illegal immigrant will work for $2 an hour, then that is fair pay. Nobody is putting a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Rabbis
Tagged illegal immigrant, illegal immigrants, market letters, public pronouncements, rabbi shmuel, rabbinic ordination, rabbinical council of america
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The Kosher Fight For Justice
Shmarya Rosenberg writes for Jewcy: Undocumented workers, always one phone call away from deportation and a moment away from being summarily fired, are afraid to object to abusive working conditions. This makes them ripe for exploitation, as has been amply … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Kashrut
Tagged Agriprocessors, dark underbelly, kosher meat, kosher slaughterhouse, liberal jews, postville iowa
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Partisan Rabbi Claims To Be Impartial Investigator Of Agricprocessors
Failed Messiah reports: The co-leader of the rabbis’ staged visit to Agriprocessors, Rabbi Lerner claimed to be an impartial invesigator. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. We’ve shown that before. Here’s some new evidence of Lerner’s bias. … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged forward reports, member congregations, orthodox rabbis, orthodox synagogues, umbrella group, young israel of stamford
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Agriprocessors Is Only A Pretext
I don’t know any rabbi who’s taken a public position on Agriprocessors who’s done much work verifying the facts of the case and conducting a thorough investigation. Instead, Agriprocessors is a pretext. For the chareidi, it is another example of … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Rabbis
Tagged anthony weiss, chabad rabbi, conservative rabbi, orthodox rabbi, orthodox rabbis, postville iowa
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