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Animal-rights Expert Endorses Kosher Plant
“They have to learn to keep their process good,” she added. Grandin’s positive remarks came as a welcome piece of good news for AgriProcessors, which has come under fire on a number of fronts since the slaughtering controversy. In May, the Forward published an article about the working conditions of the largely immigrant work force…
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In Iowa, Rabbi Opens Home for Troubled Jewish Boys
CLAYTON COUNTY, Iowa — In a small Mississippi River town like Guttenberg, breaking news events are a rarity, so reporter M.J. Smith has been drawn to what she calls “faith in action stories.” One of her recent columns in the Guttenberg Press (which did not produce the Bible, but is 110 years old) was about…
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Groups Plan For Second Darfur Rally
Organizers of April’s Save Darfur rally in Washington are planning another large-scale event to draw attention to the continuing killings in Sudan. The second protest will be held in New York City on September 17 and, like its predecessor, will be orchestrated by the Save Darfur Coalition, a collection of 150 faith-based advocacy and humanitarian…
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The Sandak and the Kvater
Bert Brodetsky writes to ask: “Sandak and kvater — fun vanet kumt es?” Or to put this — more or less — into English: “The sandak and the kvater — where does it all come from?” That still leaves us with two non-English words, both having to do with the rite of circumcision. Sandak is…
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U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration appears to have dropped any objections to Israeli efforts to topple the Palestinian Authority’s democratically elected Hamas government. Israel’s security Cabinet on Wednesday authorized the Israeli military to broaden its actions in Gaza and further target Hamas, the terrorist organization that won January’s Palestinian elections and has claimed responsibility for…
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In Praise of Hillel
‘Tonight David and Abby are our king and queen,” Avraham Infeld, president of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, said of financial guru Abby Joseph Cohen and her husband, investment analyst David Cohen. The Cohens were honorees at Hillel’s June 6 International Gala, held at the Pierre Hotel. “In China they call Abby ‘Goddess’;…
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Check Out Working Conditions Before Checking In for Business
Last week the Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform movements — encompassing the vast majority of American Jews — became founding members of the Informed Meetings Exchange, or Inmex. We feel strongly that Inmex, an independent organization that provides objective information on working conditions within the hospitality industry, will help translate the values we espouse into the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL
Stanley Siegelman returns to Der Vinkl with his incredible ability to uncover rare bits of news and to follow up with his hilarious Yiddish and English commentary. Here’s the news item, as he describes it: “Saudi King Abdullah has instructed newspaper editors to stop printing photos of women in which their faces are revealed. He…
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GOP Chief, Abramoff Linked In New Government Report
As the chairman of the Republican National Committee attempts to distance himself and his party from the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal, a new government report suggests that the GOP leader used his previous White House post to aid the disgraced lobbyist. Since allegations first surfaced in 2004 that Abramoff had bilked Indian tribes out of…
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Iowa Pol: I Said Holocaust, Not the Holocaust
WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Iowa alleges that the Anti-Defamation League defamed him over claims that he compared illegal immigrants to Nazis. The ADL has been highly critical of a May 27 speech delivered by Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, in which he argued that illegal immigrants have killed many more Americans since…
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As U.N. Body Raps Israel, Bush Strategy Questioned
Following the inaugural session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, Jewish organizations are criticizing both the new body’s decision to focus on alleged Israeli violations and the Bush administration’s failure to take stronger action to head off a diplomatic debacle. Held in Geneva, the two-week meeting ended with the adoption of a…
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