12 Feb 2012 | 19 Shevat 5772
Ben Harris
WorldPublished: 03 November 2008
NEW YORK—With the kosher meat producer Agriprocessors facing mounting financial problems, including the possibility of foreclosure, industry insiders say the company is finished and that kosher consumers should brace themselves for some rough times.
WorldPublished: 24 October 2008
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Fred Wolff is pretty explicit in laying out the reason why he won’t support Barack Obama on Nov. 4.
A survivor of the Dachau concentration camp who came to the United States as a teenager, Wolff told JTA he typically favors Republican candidates. This year he would have preferred former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas or Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.
In the weeks leading up to last Rosh HaShanah, the Anti-Defamation League, bowing to mounting pressure and a mini-revolt by its New England board, reversed its longstanding refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide.
LocalPublished: 03 October 2008
NEW YORK – A former top IRS official warned Jewish groups that they would likely face a financial penalty and expensive audit process if they went through with plans to have the Republican vice-presidential candidate speak at an anti-Iran rally.
WorldPublished: 12 September 2008
NEW YORK – An undercover video shot last month at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant has raised new questions about the company’s slaughter practices and cost it the support of one of the country’s leading experts on animal welfare.
Dr. Temple Grandin, an animal scientist who has served as consultant to scores of slaughterhouses across the country, said the practice shown in the video — in which two workers make “gouging,” saw-like cuts into the necks of animals immediately after the ritual cut performed by a rabbi — is inhumane.
WorldPublished: 12 September 2008
NEW YORK – The filing of criminal charges against the owners of Agriprocessors has prompted the Orthodox Union, one of the meat company’s kosher certifiers, to promise it will suspend its kosher supervision unless new management is hired.
NEW YORK – An award-winning professor touted as the new face of Yeshiva University is leaving his post as head of the honors program at its men’s college following the discovery of his blog.
Vice presidential pick Sarah Palin says she doesn’t share the views of a Jews for Jesus leader who in a speech at her church suggested that violence against Israelis resulted from God’s judgment against Jews who have failed to embrace Jesus.
Published: 29 November 2007
This is the logo of "A Light Among the Nations," a project of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which aims to get Jews to switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs during Chanukah. COEJL
One of the Jewish calendar's most widespread and public observances, the Chanukah holiday has traditionally emphasized two miracles: the military victory of Jewish rebels over Greek invaders and the single vial of oil that lasted for eight nights.
But just as other holidays have seen their historic purpose shaped to contemporary narratives, Chanukah is increasingly being used as a vehicle for other Jewish agendas that seem to stray far from the holiday's original meaning.
This year, much of the focus is on global warming. The Shalom Center, a Philadelphia-based group focused mainly on environmental issues, has launched the Green Menorah Covenant campaign to promote improved energy efficiency among Jewish communities. The campaign, which is timed to coincide with both Chanukah and a U.N.-sponsored conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, follows a similar effort, begun last year, to encourage switching to more energy-efficient light bulbs.
