Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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News Agriprocessors Hit With $10 Million in Fines
Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meat company in the country until recently, has been hit with nearly $10 million in fines for withholding workers’ wages. According to the office of the Iowa labor commissioner, who issued the fines on Wednesday, more than 2,000 workers employed by the company had their wages illegally reduced within the past…
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News Ayers Fracas Airs New Left’s Old Grudges
Toward the end of a long campaign in which Barack Obama spent months trying to reassure Jewish communities that he does not secretly harbor an anti-Jewish agenda, something ironic happened: John McCain tried to tar his opponent by linking him, indirectly, to an organization associated with a particularly Jewish strain of 1960s radicalism. Bill Ayers,…
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News Sarah Palin Hits a Nerve Among Jewish Women, But It’s a Raw One
When Clare Kinberg, editor of a feminist Jewish magazine, set up her booth at an Ann Arbor Jewish community event, she didn’t expect to attract a parade of women eager to vent their rage against Sarah Palin. But woman after woman — perhaps noticing Kinberg’s Barack Obama pin —approached her to tell stories of how…
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News Dems Gather in NYC
The evening of October 7, a capacity crowd of about 200 people — most of them young, hip and Jewish — gathered at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space for a debate-watching party that American Jewish World Service hosted. Those who got there early parked themselves in the archipelago of seating areas perched above an indoor pond…
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Israel News Jackie Mason vs. Sarah Silverman
With elections around the corner, the presidential campaigns have turned up the rhetorical heat. So have the Jewish comedians. Early this month, Borscht Belt graduate Jackie Mason, a John McCain supporter, took on much younger comic Sarah Silverman, a Barack Obama fan, in a Web video that Mason released in conjunction with the Republican Jewish Coalition….
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News Congressmen Take on Agriprocessors in Public Letter
Twelve Jewish members of Congress sent a scathing letter to the owners of what was, until recently, the largest kosher meat packer, Agriprocessors, saying that the “company’s treatment of its workers and the animals raise serious questions about the company’s compliance with U.S. law and the highest standards of Jewish law and tradition concerning kashrut.”…
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News The Lehmans? They’ve Moved On. Sad? A Little.
If there’s anyone unaffected by the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, it may be the Lehman family. The descendants of Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, two of the German Jewish brothers who lent the firm its name in the 1850s, remain a tightly knit clan ensconced in New York’s upper crust. But they have not…
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Israel News Woody Allen Goes to the Opera
Woody Allen’s enormous film oeuvre is many things, but “operatic” is probably not among them. So, critics have been tickled by their own conclusion that Allen’s new production of a Puccini opera isn’t half bad. “Gianni Schicchi,” the tale of a swindler who impersonates the deceased Buoso Donati in order to change the dead man’s…
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