11/23/2008
Keeping kosher: Kosher meat scare as plant woes mount (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
WATERLOO --- Agriprocessors' woes have made keeping kosher even more difficult for area Jews.
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11/23/2008
Shortage Gobbles Up Kosher Thanksgiving Turkeys (Israel National News)
(IsraelNN.com) A shortage of kosher Thanksgiving Turkeys may leave many Americans with a vegetarian holiday or a feast over chicken due to the bankruptcy at Agriprocessors, the country's largest kosher meat packing plant.
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11/22/2008
Grand jury indicts kosher slaughterhouse and employees (Lincoln Journal Star)
DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal grand jury has returned a 12-count indictment against a kosher slaughterhouse and some its managers on charges including conspiracy, harboring illegal immigrants and bank fraud.
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11/21/2008
Jewish community threatened amid kosher meatpacker's problems (Pioneer Press)
POSTVILLE, Iowa — Police are taking seriously an indirect threat against the Jewish community played and posted Thursday on a Web site that has focused intently on recent problems at struggling kosher meatpacker Agriprocessors Inc.
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11/21/2008
Kosher cooks, start your ovens (Jewish Ledger)
Those who love the heat are invited to stay in the kitchen and cook up an easy-to-make kosher entrée to enter in the Third Annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off, a cooking contest sponsored by the Manischewitz Company.
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11/21/2008
Sara Lee to close kosher hot dog and meat processing facility in Chicago (Food Business Review)
Sara Lee has announced that it will close its kosher hot dog and meat processing facility in Chicago on or before January 30, 2009.
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11/20/2008
Kosher crisis (BBC News)
Why US shops are running short of kosher meat
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11/20/2008
Kosher meat shortage likely in wake of plant closings (Cleveland Jewish News)
Three of the five largest slaughterhouses producing kosher beef have halted production, setting retailers scrambling and prompting fears of shortages and price hikes.
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11/22/2008
Indictment Alleges Agriprocessors Managers Knowingly Employed Illegal Immigrants (Washington Post)
DES MOINES, Nov. 21 -- A federal grand jury has issued a 12-count indictment alleging that managers were intricately involved in efforts to employ illegal workers at a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids.
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11/20/2008
Retailers on the hunt for elusive kosher beef supply (J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California)
A supermarket in New Jersey with a large kosher section has shelves nearly empty of kosher beef. In New York, a kosher steakhouse says its customers are canceling reservations because choice cuts aren’t always available.
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