POSTVILLE, Iowa (JTA) – On a frigid evening late last month, Aron Schimmel, the Chabad emissary here, sat in a deli at the back of the glatt kosher supermarket sipping from a can of Israeli mango juice. A sign posted next to the entranceway boasted of the presence of Jewish life in this working-class town…
Abdikani Hassan, 29, a worker at Agri Star kosher slaughterhouse, was reportedly stabbed by another worker John Herrera, 23, during a brawl last night that involved 15 people. The stabbing occurred inside the refrigerator of Agri Star — the kosher slaughterhouse and meat processing plant that formerly housed Agriprocessors, which went into bankruptcy after a…
A reader from suburban Chicago was mystified when he made a trip to the kosher aisle of his supermarket this last weekend. There, among the kosher soups and meats, he found packages of Agriprocessors’ turkey and corned beef, being sold under the Aaron’s Best label. The presence of these packages was a mystery because Agriprocessors…
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