Food

August 5, 2008

Eating Bambi (recipe included)

By Rob Eshman

Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn't concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East -- it's about meat.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Iowa Labor Commissioner prosecutes Agriprocessors on 57 counts

The Iowa Labor Commissioner's Office has sent dozens of alleged violations against Agriprocessors to the state attorney general for prosecution

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Agriprocessors tries to clean up its act

By Sue Fishkoff

Nearly three months after a federal raid and six weeks before the busy High Holidays season, a tour of Agriprocessors shows the company is attracting new workers and trying to clean up its act

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Rabbi Pesach Lerner, center, the executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, speaks with a worker at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, on July 31, 2008. Photo by Aaron TroodlerTuesday, August 5, 2008

Orthodox rabbis: Agriprocessors Iowa kosher plant passes muster

By Ben Harris

A group of Orthodox rabbis gave Agriprocessors a clean bill of health after a visit sponsored by the owners of the embattled kosher meat-packing plant

Monday, August 4, 2008

Conservatives release guidelines for ethical kashrut certification

By Ben Harris

The Conservative movement released a policy statement and guidelines for its much-anticipated ethical kashrut certification, outlining the social justice standards companies are expected to meet if their foodstuffs are to qualify for the designation

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hot pot dinner bonds two very different ‘believers’ in China

By Alison Klayman

Hot pot meals are popular in China and a double problem for kosher vegetarians.

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren convened a hearing in Washington on July 24, 2008 to consider the government's role in the Agriprocessors raidMonday, July 28, 2008

Agriprocessors raid slammed at Congressional hearings

By Ben Harris

Witnesses at recent congressional hearings described the federal immigration raid on the country's largest kosher plant as a travesty of justice, a national disgrace and an ambush

Monday, July 28, 2008

Demonstrators march in Iowa to support Agriprocessors workers

More than 900 people, mainly Jews and Catholics, called for immigration reform Sunday and urged support for the nearly 400 undocumented workers arrested in the immigration raid two months ago at Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat plant

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ancient sources yield health and diet wisdom

Diet books don't often include approbations from rabbis, but they're appropriate for "The Life-Transforming Diet," a structured eating plan based on the writings of physician and Torah scholar Maimonides.

An interfaith rally in Postville, Iowa, will demonstrate against poor working conditions at the Agriprocessors plant there on July 27, 2008. JTA photo.Monday, July 21, 2008

Agriprocessors raid fallout continues: Jewish liberals plan rally in Postville

By Ben Harris

An interfaith coalition -- organized by a Jewish group -- is planning to demonstrate next week in Postville, Iowa, in support of justice for workers and comprehensive immigration reform.

Monday, July 21, 2008

VIDEO: Joan Nathan, the real Sara Lee and America’s favorite cheesecake

The namesake of the famous company Sara Lee discusses her father's early expeierments with cheesecake and how he decided to name the company he founded after her. From Jewish Cooking In America with Joan Nathan.

A student at the new Center for Kosher Culinary Arts in New York City slices potatoes on the first day of classes. Photo by Sue FishkoffWednesday, July 16, 2008

New kosher cooking school steps up to the plate—and that’s not chopped liver!

By Sue Fishkoff

Last week, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts opened in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Flatbush. The $4,500, six-week intensive course, run in cooperation with the continuing education department of Kingsborough Community College, is the only professional kosher cooking school in North America.

More than 10,000 people come to Hazon Yeshaya every year to help assist the poor in IsraelWednesday, July 16, 2008

Israel’s Hazon Yeshaya means meal in many languages

By Meredith Price Levitt

More than 10,000 people come to Hazon Yeshaya every year to help assist the poor in Israel

Saturday, July 12, 2008

VIDEO: Feed Me, Bubbe! Lukshen Kugel—Noodle Pudding

In this episode of 'Feed Me, Bubbe,' shares her way to make Lukshen Kugel -- Noodle Pudding.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Agriprocessors takes aim at government, gets boost as group drops boycott

By Ben Harris

An Orthodox social justice group dropped its boycott of the embattled kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, saying the company is "beginning to take significant steps" to address claims of worker mistreatment at its plant in Postville, Iowa.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Agriprocessors turns to homeless for help

By Ben Harris

In an effort to restore lagging production at its Postville, Iowa plant, the country's largest kosher meat producer has been hiring workers from homeless shelters in Texas to replace employees detained in a massive federal immigration raid last month.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

VIDEO: Rachel Somekh teaches two classic Iraqi Jewish recipes—potato chops and cigars

Rachel Somekh teaches two classic Iraqi appetizers, potato chops and cigars

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Royal recipes for the ‘princess’ in everyone

By Molly Binenfeld, Contributing Writer

If you ask almost any Jew "What does a Jewish Princess make for dinner?" the answer would probably be the punchline of an old joke: "reservations." Ask Georgie Tarn and Tracey Fine, however, and they'll respond with one of their unique recipes, such as Bloody Mary Borscht.

Aaron Rubashkin, outside his Brooklyn butcher shop on June 3, 2008, says his Agriprocessors firm "don't do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat."Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Rubashkin: It’s all a lie

By Ben Harris

Speaking out for the first time, the owner of Agriprocessors was visibly angered by the flood of charges that have imperiled his business, the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse

Rabbi Jill Jacobs revised the wording of her living-wage teshuva many times before it was adopted May 28, 2008 by the Conservative movementMonday, June 2, 2008

Conservatives adopt ruling on living wage

By Ben Harris

Just days after the Conservative movement became the only Jewish denomination to speak out against alleged worker abuse at the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States, the movement's legal authorities voted to recommend that Jewish businesses pay their employees a living wage.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa dumps CEO

By Ben Harris

Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid


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