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In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear; Injury, Short Pay
Nathaniel Popper, reporting for the Forward (NY) investigated a Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, where he uncovered dangerous working conditions, low pay, and anti-unionization pressures that raised questions about the ethics of the Jewish owners of the plant towards their largely immigrant workers.
Tags: Agriprocessors; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; slaughterhouse workers; Latin American immigrants; accidental amputations; Postville, Iowa; union "devils"; animal rights group; health and safety violations; Conservative Jewish synagogue movement; Kosher certification; Orthodox Judaism; immigration authorities; ethics; United Food and Commercial Workers; Father Floyd Paul Ouderkirk; Sholom Rubashkin; Caitlin Didier; Lubavitch Hasidim; Stephen Bloom; "Postville"; PETA; undocumented immigrants; Human Rights Watch; Rabbi Morris Allen; Rabbinical Council of America; Orthodox Union
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Jews in Prison Face Special Challenges
The article took an in-depth look at the challenges facing Jewish inmates in Missouri prisons. The author covered all stages of incarceration, challenges on the inside and the challenge of re-integrating into society as a whole and the Jewish community in particular.
Tags: Missouri prisons; religion; Judaism; Jewish inmates; re-integration; incarceration; rights of prisoners; drug abuse; substance abuse; community outreach
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An Unorthodox Death
Vanity Fair Magazine reports that "Through massive real-estate projects such as New York's World Financial Center and London's Canary Wharf, the secretive Reichmann clan of Toronto became fabulously wealthy, the Rockefellers of the global ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. But the bankruptcy in 1992 would be followed by a greater tragedy: the mysterious and all-but-unreported death last year of the family's promising young heir, David, who had set out to forge an Israeli high-technology empire."