Ben Harris
By Ben Harris
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News Preaching Lost Art of Fermentation
If you’re a foodie or a farmer, a DIY enthusiast or home kitchen tinkerer, or merely a conscientious objector in the battle to standardize, industrialize and globalize every last human commodity, you may already be familiar with Sandor Ellix Katz. For close to a decade, Katz has been traveling the world, preaching the lost art…
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News A Jewish Farmer Grows in America
The first time I met an American Jewish farmer was at a falafel joint near the Yeshiva University campus in Manhattan in 2008. We were both killing time before the start of a panel discussion on ethics and kosher food by…well…eating. He was an Ivy League grad, several years younger than I, and at the…
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Fast Forward Rally at U.N. Tells Ahmadinejad: ‘Go Home’
New York — Thousands of protesters filled Dag Hammarskjold Plaza opposite the United Nations for a rally against Iran’s president, who came to town to address the General Assembly. “The message to him is please go home,” Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel said at Monday’s demonstration. “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, go home and stay home. We don’t want…
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Fast Forward Child Labor Allegations at Kosher Slaughterhouse Referred to Iowa Attorney General
In what could result in the first charges to be brought against upper management at Agriprocessors, the Iowa Labor Commissioner’s Office has sent dozens of alleged child labor violations to the state’s attorney general for prosecution. Completing a months-long investigation of the Postville-based company, which is the country’s largest kosher meat producer, the labor commissioner…
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Fast Forward Sparks Fly at Capitol Hill Hearing on Immigration Raid
Washington — Witnesses at recent congressional hearings described the federal immigration raid on the country’s largest kosher plant as a travesty of justice, a national disgrace and an ambush. But comparing the government detention facilities where 300 illegal workers arrested in the May 12 raid were detained to concentration camps was too much for one…
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Fast Forward As Furor Grows in Wake of Immigration Raid, Kosher Meat Company Seeks New CEO
Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid. Aaron Rubashkin, the founder of Agriprocessors, announced May 23 that he…
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Fast Forward Spitzer’s Successor Is Well-Liked by State’s Jewish Leaders
Barely two days after news broke that Eliot Spitzer had consorted with a prostitute in a Washington hotel room in February, and before the New York governor had even announced his resignation, Jewish leaders already were kvelling over his successor, Lt.-Gov. David Paterson. “He’s great,” said New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents predominantly…
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Culture Montessori Movement Offers Jewish Educators an Alternative
Ayelet Lichtash has had a busy summer. In the fall, she will welcome the first class to a new preschool in North Bethesda, Md., that marries a regular Jewish curriculum with the principles of Montessori education. Her summer has been consumed with securing zoning, building a playground, recruiting teachers and inspiring parents to sign up…
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