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The Lucrative Business Of Importing Cheap Labor From Overseas
There are legal ways to bring in cheap labor from overseas to do brutal work for low wages. Immigration attorneys typically earn at least $10,000 per immigrant (because the application process is labor-intensive). Unskilled immigrants typically work for close to … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Immigration
Tagged agriprocessors inc, american consulate in guangzhou, cathay pacific airlines, guangzhou china, immigrant visa, immigration attorneys, immigration reduction, political advocacy group, postville iowa
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I’m Tired Of The Fluffy Treatment The Jewish Journal Gives ‘Progressive’ Orthodox Judaism
The rabbis must be happy when they can have one of their own write these stories. That way they won’t be asked any tough questions. This is what I call unethical journalism — having someone you control report on you. … Continue reading
Posted in Beth Jacob, Bnai David-Judea, Daniel Korobkin, Ethics, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Modern Orthodox, Pico/Robertson, YICC
Tagged judea congregation, nai david, postville iowa, rabbi elazar, rabbi yosef, state and federal labor laws
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OU Threatens To Withdraw Kosher Certification For Agriprocessors
Julia Preston writes for the New York Times: The leading Jewish authority in charge of certifying kosher food has threatened to withdraw its certification from the products of Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s largest kosher meatpacker, after criminal charges for more … Continue reading
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Tagged agriprocessors inc, criminal misdemeanor, jewish households, misdemeanor charges, postville iowa, rabbi menachem
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Debating Kosher Ethics
From the New York Times: An immigration raid at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant has opened a wide rift among Jewish leaders over the company’s ethical conduct and led to new interest in a campaign to create wage and … Continue reading
Posted in Kashrut
Tagged agriprocessors inc, meatpacking plant, national council of young israel, postville iowa, rabbi allen, united synagogue of conservative judaism
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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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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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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
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Tagged anthony weiss, chabad rabbi, conservative rabbi, orthodox rabbi, orthodox rabbis, postville iowa
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First-hand look at meat plant shows rabbi has been misled
Rabbi David Eliezrie, President of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County, writes: Sadly, Rabbi Dennis Sasso has transgressed one of the most important and basic principles of Jewish Law, that you cannot judge an issue unless you have heard both … Continue reading
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Tagged council of orange, meat plant, meatpacking plant, postville iowa, principles of jewish law, rabbi david
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Orthodox Rabbi Slams OU, RCA Over Agriprocessors
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes in the New York Times Aug. 6: Unfortunately, this year kosher meat has become a different type of symbol, one not of mourning and spiritual devotion but of ridicule, embarrassment and hypocrisy. In May in Postville, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Orthodox Union, RCA
Tagged agriprocessors inc, jewish dietary laws, meatpacking plant, postville iowa, rabbi shmuel, rabbinical council of america
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Expanding The Laws Of Kosher
From The Jewish Press: We certainly hold no brief for any company or business enterprise shown to have run afoul of the law. And if AgriProcessors has done so in terms of employing undocumented workers, it will, and should, have … Continue reading
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Tagged animal slaughter, ethical treatment of animals, kosher slaughter, postville iowa, slaughter and consumption, slaughtering process
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