The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival has rejected a film created by Orthodox women after the film director demanded screening for female audiences only in accordance with Halacha. The film, “A Light For Greytowers,” directed by Robin Garbose, was initially accepted by the festival on the basis of its artistic merits. The film was slated to […]
“At a time where anti-Semitic acts seem to be on the rise in Europe, a bill was proposed in Denmark that will affect mainly Jews – the banning of male child circumcision. Denmark’s National Council for Children has recommended the legislation of a law banning circumcision of boys under the age of 15. The passing of […]
Sarah Lee kosher meat was under the certification of underrabbi Kauffman and Rabbi M. Small Sara Lee Corp. said Wednesday it will exit the kosher meat business and close a facility that processes kosher hot dogs and meat by the end of January. The shuttering of the facility in Chicago will mean the loss of about […]
“Baruch Weiss, a lawyer for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin, told a judge today that unnamed investors are in negotiations to buy the company. “Very soon, the company will be out of Rubashkin hands,” he said.” more@DesmoinesRegister.com
“After 60 years of settling Jewish refugees and other immigrants in the city, the New York Association for New Americans is closing its doors. The nonprofit, known as NYANA, has seen its annual operating budget slowly dwindle to $7 million from $90 million as a result of a shrinking case load and difficulty in competing for […]
“As Agriprocessors and the town of Postville stand on the edge of a financial cliff, hope has emerged that the plant will soon find rescue via outside investors, a well-placed employee at the company said this weekend. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he said a group of investors toured the plant shortly before the […]
New York state officials have begun examining middlemen in the market for credit-default swaps, as they comb for potential evidence of manipulation in the largely unregulated world of CDS trading. The latest focus of regulators’ inquiry are firms known as interdealer brokers, or the generally small, independent shops that serve as matchmakers for Wall Street […]
URGENT TEHLLIM NEEDED Sholom Mordechai HaLevi ben Rivkah.Who is in need of a a great Geulah and Hatzalah.In addition, please sign the petition @www.waronkosher.com The former leader of a controversial meatpacking plant has been arrested again, this time on a federal bank-fraud charge. Sholom Rubashkin, 49, who ran the Agriprocessors, Inc. plant for years, was arrested […]
“While Barack Obama won the vast majority of Brooklyn votes in the Nov. 4 election, McCain drew more than four times as many voters than Obama in the largely Hasidic neighborhood between Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — even though registered Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one in the area.” ‘Obama won 77 percent […]
To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall. The […]
