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Kosher Slaughterhouse’s Food-Safety Record Criticized by Regulators
The nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, already the subject of allegations about its treatment of both workers and animals, has also been chastised by government regulators for its food-safety record, according to newly released documents. The AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, received 250 noncompliance records from the United States Department of Agriculture during 2006, five of…
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A Muslim Congressman Heads to the Holy Land
Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is among a congressional delegation visiting Israel this week with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. The eighteen-member group, which is almost all freshmen, also includes Jewish congressmen Paul Hodes, John Yarmuth and Steve Cohen. My colleague Nathan Guttman is in Israel now and will have a story up this week…
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On Fellowship
I had to apologize to my younger self when I agreed to teach a course at the National Havurah Summer Institute a few years ago. My parents were part of a Havurah — a Jewish fellowship group with roots in the hippie era — and although we never attended the institute, my brothers and I…
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Summer Sounds
Musical worlds collide at the upcoming installment of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors performance series. Klezmer wonder Andy Statman and bluegrass great Ricky Skaggs take the stage as special guests in each other’s respective bands, The Andy Statman Trio and Skaggs’s Kentucky Thunder. The show is part of the Roots of American Music mini-festival….
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Borscht Belt Meets Bible Belt
Chayim surveyed the audience — an audience that included a significant number of ventriloquists who use their art to spread the Gospel. He turned to Allan Blumenstyk and gave him a look that seemed to say, “For this you put me in a suitcase and schlep me across the ocean?” But if Chayim was less…
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Oi Va Voi’s Brave New Klezmer
The experimental London ensemble Oi Va Voi opens its self-titled third album with a brave new look into the future of klezmer. On lead single “Yuri,” a distorted, distant voice calls out, “I am a rocket, the power of the system/it’s bullet-proof technology/Oh, we’re going to a new world/Going to a better place.” Clarinet and…
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Barack in Brooklyn …
On August 22. Here’s the sign-up. Clinton has been outraising Obama in Brooklyn so far, but lately he’s been gaining ground.
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Jewish Groups Steer Clear of Judicial Fight
So far, the National Council of Jewish Women is the only Jewish group taking up the fight over the nomination of Judge Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Southwick’s nomination has been opposed by a wide array of liberal groups, including organizations representing black and gay Americans. In one past case,…
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What Happens When An Arab Wearing a "We Will Not Be Silent" T-Shirt Boards JetBlue?
According to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU yesterday, Raed Jarrar – an architect of Arabic descent who has lived in the U.S. with his American wife since 2005 – was kept off a JetBlue flight at JFK last August until he agreed to change his t-shirt, which read, “We will not be silent,” in…
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JLC Honors NYC Mayor
BLOOMBERG HAILED AS UNION-FRIENDLY BY JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE “What kind of Republican is Michael Bloomberg? The best kind: a former Republican!” said the Jewish Labor Committee’s president,Stuart Appelbaum (also president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union), at the June 12 Human Rights Awards Dinner. Award recipient Bloomberg declared: “Jews and labor are linked…
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Because It’s Never Too Early For A Little Illinois Mudslinging … UPDATE: Jay Footlik Weighs In
Put this story in your “it’s never too early to go for the low blow” file: The blogosphere has been abuzz this week after Andy Lappin, a supporter of Illinois Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, played the anti-Semite card against the two Democratic challengers vying to take the lawmaker on in 2008. Lappin sent out an…
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