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Will Jews Have More Voices in Congress?
MULTIPLE UPDATES So far it looks like the number of Jews in Congress may grow by one to three seats. We’ll update these results on Wednesday In New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District, Democrat John Adler has been projected the winner over Republican Chris Myers in a squeeker. With 93 percent of precincts reported, Adler trailed…
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Agriprocessors Meltdown: On the Ground in Postville
Our Nathaniel Popper is on the ground in Postville, Iowa, reporting on the meltdown of kosher meat producer Agriprocessors. He reports on the precarious situation of the company’s animals (with exclusive video), the plight of its diverse workforce and the country’s looming kosher meat shortage. These reports follow news that a bank is trying to…
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Armies of Volunteers Mobilize To Get Out the Vote in Virginia
McLEAN, Va. — The days of Barack Obama and John McCain’s efforts to persuade Jewish voters are done. Now, the singular focus in such battleground states as Virginia has shifted to turning out any and all voters. With relatively few undecided voters remaining, and no heavy concentrations of Jewish voters in any particular neighborhoods or…
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Third Kosher Slaughterhouse Halts Production, Heightening Worries About Meat Shortage
POSTVILLE, Iowa — In developments that are likely to cripple the availability of kosher beef in large parts of America, three of the five largest slaughterhouses producing kosher beef have halted production this week. All eyes have been on the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, in Postville, Iowa, which stopped producing beef last week due to…
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Slaughterhouse’s Woes Leave Plant’s Diverse Workforce Idle
Postville, Iowa — This past weekend, everywhere you went in this normally industrious Iowa city, there were groups of men sitting around with nothing to do, plotting how to skip town. A group of Somali refugees who, until this week, had worked for the kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, were eating a meal at Postville’s Mexican…
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Gruesome Scenes From the Poultry Line Are a Sign of Agriprocessors’ Troubles
POSTVILLE, Iowa — Oscar Andres has worked on the poultry line at the kosher meat producer Agriprocessors here since September and he says that a few dead chickens always make it out of company holding pens and onto the slaughter line conveyor belt. On October 31, though, Andres said that nearly half the chickens coming…
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Bank Initiates Foreclosure on Kosher Meat Producer
The kosher meat company Agriprocessors has defaulted on a $35 million loan, leading a St. Louis bank to foreclose on the company’s assets. If the foreclosure proceedings move forward, it would appear that they would force Agriprocessors out of business. On October 31, a U.S. District Court judge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, appointed a temporary…
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Young Jews More Likely To Vote GOP Than Their Elders
Washington — Comedian Sarah Silverman has gotten a lot of mileage out of the notion that older Jewish voters, especially those in Florida, need to be persuaded to support Senator Barack Obama. Yet as it turns out, those bubbes and zaydes may be the ones prodding their grandchildren to support the Democratic nominee for president….
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From Sarah Palin to the Schlep, This Race Featured Unusual Drama
Observers and participants from all points on the political spectrum agree that the 2008 presidential election has focused, to an unusual degree, on Jewish issues and Jewish voters. “The intensity of the interest in the Jewish vote started much earlier and is more intense in the larger press,” said Ira Forman, executive director of the…
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Olmert’s Longer Tenure Leaves Peace Process Further in Doubt
Haifa, Israel — During the majority of his political career in the Likud party, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was known as a hawk. After he joined the Kadima party, Olmert was said to be increasingly dovish. Today, he is referred to with a third avian metaphor: a lame duck. It has already been 12…
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Border Raid Seen as Message to Damascus
An unprecedented American military raid into Syria has halted a fragile diplomatic engagement between Damascus and Washington and prompted speculation that hawks within the Bush administration wanted to send a message to Syria and to the next president. The operation was conducted by American military helicopters against an alleged Al Qaeda-linked network funneling fighters and…
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