Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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News Kosher Distributor Faces Labor Court Hearing
Just weeks after the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse made national news for problems with its workers, a kosher food distributor in Brooklyn has become caught up in an escalating dispute with its employees. Flaum Appetizing fired nearly half its 45 employees May 28. According to Alvin Blyer, the Brooklyn regional director of the National Labor…
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Israel News Adam Sandler’s Casting Call
Go into Roni’s Diner in Beverly Hills, Calif., and you’ll see a picture on the wall of Adam Sandler sulkily forking over $10 to Roni Levy, the restaurant’s owner. According to Levy, a fellow Israeli émigré named Yuki Sharoni — Sandler’s hairstylist and the inspiration for the title character in the film “You Don’t Mess…
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News Kosher Industry Lacks Contingency Plan
In the wake of a massive raid at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, kosher authorities acknowledge that they have no contingency plan that could replace the company’s kosher meat production. Since the raid at Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, the company has struggled to ramp up production in a factory that has supplied more than…
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News Kosher Plant Workers Find Refuge in Local Church
While a recent raid on the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse has been big news in the Jewish community, in the town where the raid took place, the most visible effect has been on the local Catholic Church, St. Bridget’s. St. Bridget’s church has long been a hub of the Hispanic community in Postville, Iowa, where…
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News A Bronx Tale: What Did the Archdiocese Do With Those Stained-Glass Windows?
Not many people are talking these days about the Mosholu Jewish Center, once a hub of Modern Orthodox life in the Bronx. The synagogue closed its doors in 1999, after many members of the congregation had moved or passed away. In a strange twist of fate, the person who may be most actively engaged in…
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Culture Glimpsing the World of Holocaust Memoir
What exactly is “personal history”? Is it a cousin of political history, cultural history or revisionist history — an account steeped in perspective before objective truth — or is it just a fancy term for “memoir”? With a spate of memoirs-turned-fiction rattling book stalls, the Holocaust chronicles, published this year, chosen for review this week…
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News Bunk Raids, First Kisses, Color Wars: A Book of Memories
Did you hear about the kids at Camp Tel Yehudah in upstate New York who wrote and performed a stage version of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir “Dawn” — set to the music of Billy Joel? How about the ones at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, who teamed up for basketball every Tisha b’Av — kids…
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News Raid on Kosher Slaughterhouse Sparks Fears of Meat Shortage
In a development with potential repercussions for consumers of kosher meat worldwide, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse greatly curtailed production this past week after a raid by federal agents led to the arrest of hundreds of undocumented workers. On May 12, The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement stormed the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant in Postville,…
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