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Jenin leads effort in Israeli-Palestinian joint industrial zone

NEW YORK — Even as Israeli and Palestinian leaders argue about the conditions that must be in place for a return to the negotiating table, they are striking similar...

New book sees failed immigration policy dooming Postville — and other Midwest towns

SAN FRANCISCO — Postville, Iowa, home of the now-defunct Agriprocessors slaughterhouse, is a rural town struggling with diversity, brought down by political...

Agriprocessors is sold; takes a huge loss

SAN FRANCISCO — The Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, was sold to a Canadian company. SHF Industries, a company formed in May by Canadian plastics manufacturer...

YU report criticizes day school lay leaders

NEW YORK — “We can’t just blindly throw money at our problems,” Scott Goldberg says at a lunch meeting at Yeshiva University’s mid-Manhattan campus, referring to...

Is this the last chance for Holocaust restitution?

PRAGUE — Stuart Eizenstat, who led the US government delegation to the June 26-29 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, sat down with JTA for an interview on the...

Corporations — ‘Stop hiding’: Expert sets strategies for surviving in difficult times

CATHY Sunshine has the perfect surname for what she does. As a management consultant, she is hired to detect systemic patterns that hold companies back, reduce...

OU plans to meet the tuition crisis

WITH the encouragement and participation of a growing number of yeshivot and day schools across North America, the Orthodox Union is moving ahead with a two-pronged...

Post-Rubashkin: NY eateries get ethics seal

SAN FRANCISCO — One year after a massive immigration raid at the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the US, an Orthodox social justice organization announced the...

OU realigns, offers job placement help

NEW YORK — Fred Goldberg says he saw the writing on the wall late last year when the small computer company he worked for in New York instituted a 20% […]

Scharansky tapped to chair Jewish Agency

NEW YORK — Israel’s prime minister has nominated former Soviet dissident and close political ally Natan Scharansky for the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency for...