Liberal Jewish groups organizing immigration rally at Iowa kosher plant
Ben Harris, JTAJul 25, 2008
NEW YORK An interfaith coalition is planning to demonstrate next week in Postville, Iowa, in support of justice for workers and comprehensive immigration reform....
Kosher plant’s PR firm accused of impersonating rabbi on website postings
Ben Harris, JTAJul 18, 2008
NEW YORK The public relations firm trying to restore the image of the embattled kosher meat producer Agriprocessors is wrestling with a controversy of its own after...
Orthodox groups drops boycott of Agiprocessors
Ben Harris, JTAJul 10, 2008
NEW YORK An Orthodox social justice group dropped its boycott of the embattled kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, saying the company is beginning to take...
Presbyterian statement infuriates Jews
Ben Harris, JTAJun 19, 2008
NEW YORK Just days before they are due to consider a range of motions on the Middle East at their biennial convention, the Presbyterian Church USA has released a...
Slaughterhouse owner decries ‘lynching press’
Ben Harris, JTAJun 05, 2008
NEW YORK Aaron Rubashkin, the owner of the embattled kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors, denies he has engaged in unethical labor practices and blames the failure...
Iowa copes with fall out from raid
Ben Harris, JTAMay 23, 2008
WATERLOO, Iowa In a makeshift courthouse at a cattle exhibition center here, Angela Noemi Lastor-Gomez appeared before a federal magistrate judge on charges that she...
Massive raid of largest kosher slaughterhouse
Ben Harris, JTAMay 15, 2008
NEW YORK In laying the legal groundwork for a massive raid of the countrys largest kosher slaughterhouse, federal authorities cited claims that illegal narcotics...
