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Agriprocessors’ Bankruptcy Leaves Iowa Town Flailing
Postville, Iowa — In the days before the nation’s largest kosher meat company filed for bankruptcy, the company’s slaughterhouse here in northeast Iowa gradually shut down its operations, leaving angry workers without salaries or places to live, and animals caged and dying. Around town, men and women who had come to work at the Agriprocessors…
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After Jewish Battle, Prop. 8 Passes
Los Angeles, Calif. — With California Jews lining up on either side of a heated gay marriage debate, those opposed to gay nuptials were vindicated November 5 when a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage passed by a narrow margin. Proposition 8, which calls for amending California’s state constitution to define marriage as solely between a…
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Centrist Foreign Policy Team Takes Shape
Washington — During Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, his foreign policy advisers were criticized by some in the Jewish community for not being sufficiently supportive of Israel. But president-elect Obama’s foreign policy team is shaping up to be centrist and pragmatic, strong on Israel and likely to use special envoys to deal with overseas conflicts….
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An Unusual Field Trip: In Hitchens vs. God, Let the Eighth Graders Decide
Like many Jewish kids of bar and bat mitzvah age, the eighth graders at the Rodeph Sholom School in Manhattan have been asked in recent months to consider their own religious beliefs as preparation for their entry into religious adulthood. Unlike most, however, they took a field trip to a historic synagogue to see celebrity…
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Effort To Align Jewish Community With Turkey on Genocide Angers Armenian Activists
Washington — Armenian activists are crying foul over Turkey’s hiring of a Jewish lobbyist to work against the recognition of the Armenian genocide. Noam Neusner, former chief speechwriter on policy issues for President Bush and White House liaison to the Jewish community, was hired by the government of Turkey to promote strong ties with major…
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Election Day 2008: Morning Minyan, Midday Polling and Midnight Parties
Jewish Surrogates of a Familial Sort Abington, Pa. — With their hard-fought congressional contest winding to a close, incumbent Democrat Allyson Schwartz and Republican challenger Marina Kats turned to the same campaign strategy on election day: deploying family members. As in the presidential contest, it was a match-up between youth and experience. Schwartz, a two-term…
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Obama Victory Redraws Political Map
Barack Obama’s stunning victory on Tuesday opened a new chapter in American history, redrawing the electoral map and signaling that whatever concerns voters had about his inexperience and race were dwarfed by a sweeping desire for change and a comfort with his leadership. Early exit polls of Jewish voters indicated that between 77% and 78%…
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Matchmaking Mishaps
How many times have you sent an e-mail to the wrong address? Depending on the e-mail’s contents, the mishap can provoke reactions ranging from simple annoyance to catastrophic panic. Very rarely, however, does such a blip bring together two Jewish strangers over cocktails in the City of Brotherly Love. The story begins with my mother’s…
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Three Centuries of Bagels
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread By Maria Balinska Yale University Press, 240 pages, $24. ‘A bagel has versatility,” Murray Lender, one of America’s great frozen-food entrepreneurs, proclaimed almost 40 years ago. “It’s a roll, a roll with personality. If you must be ethnic you can call it a Jewish English muffin…
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Eric Cantor to Run for House Whip
Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, is said to be running for House GOP whip position. Politico reports that Cantor is making calls to line up support from colleagues for the position, which is the second highest Republican leadership
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Agriprocessors Files for Bankruptcy
The kosher meat company Agriprocessors filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday after a week in which the company was hit with massive fines, lawsuits and arrests. Agriprocessors, which had its primary slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal bankruptcy court in New York claiming that it was unable to pay millions…
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