Washington D.C. lawyer for Agriprocessors Nat Lewin writes: Rarely does the Anti-Defamation League take up the cudgels for a Lubavitcher chassid. But in a recent letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the ADL protested a federal magistrate’s ruling that Sholom Rubashkin, the former CEO of...

The Rise and Fall of Agriprocessors Is the Story of an Immigrant Family Gone Awry By Nathaniel Popper Thu. Dec 11, 2008 Shortly before the kosher meat company Agriprocessors declared bankruptcy this fall, Aaron Rubashkin, the 82-year-old owner of the company, stood under the fluorescent lights of hi...

In the wake of sweeping labor abuse charges at a kosher meatpacking plant, an overflow crowd debated whether food produced under such conditions can be considered kosher....

If you’ll be in New York City tonight, go and check out this panel at Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Center, where Orthodox leaders will get together to discuss the movement’s response to ethics and kashrut. The panel is at 7 pm, and will include Shmuly Yanklowitz of Uri L’Tz...

Shmarya Rosenberg writes: Since I last posted on Agriprocessors, shortly after the company was hit with more than 9,000 counts of child labor violations, the company’s "former" CEO (and still current VP) Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin was arrested on felony immigr...

Right after the raid on Agriprocessors, there was a large public outcry about the immigrant workers who were not only facing prosecution, but also left without any income source and struggling to make rent in the sleepy town of Postville, Iowa. According to Ben Harris at the JTA, hard times have hit...

What do you get when you cross Friday night with with more than 350 ethically-aware, foodie Jews?  Shabbat dinner at Hazon’s Food Conference!  The harder question is, what do you feed them? Bay Area resident, Roger Studley, is currently working to create a kosher, free-range/humanely-slaught...

ISSAC COHEN WRITES TO HIRHURIM: If there ever was a time/place for Jewish leaders to implement Mussar practices it is here… on the web. At a minimum, I’d suggest: 1) Time outs for comments that cross certain lines 2) No anonymity. 3) All users need to register with name, photo, etc. Muss...

Thanks to all of you who commented on last week’s post “The Truth About Postville”. I believe that that Dr. Camayd-Freixas’s report could represent a true turning-point in our country’s immigration debate - it will open people’s eyes to the injustice being carried...

Two months ago, The Jew & The Carrot posted an article about the kosher-keeping couple who went undercover on behalf of PETA to videotape Agriprocessors’ treatment of the animals it slaughters.  Earlier this week, Jewcy published a great interview with the couple - Hannah and Phillip Sche...