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Lawyer says Agriprocessors may be sold
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“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
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November 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Gevalt! Just found these via http://news.google.com/ and searching for “kosher”.
Sara Lee to stop making kosher meats, close Chicago plant
Chicago Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago
30, a move that will cost 185 workers their jobs, because the Downers Grove consumer-product giant has decided to exit the kosher meat business. …
UPDATE 1-Sara Lee to close and sell plant, cut 185 jobs
Local kosher establishments feeling the effects of a nation-wide …
Boston Globe (registration), United States - Nov 18, 2008
Kosher businesses in the greater Boston area are bracing for price hikes from a potential meat shortage after the country’s largest glatt kosher meat …
Arrested Agriprocessors workers use time to study
Chicago Tribune, United States - Nov 17, 2008
He says he has found time to study in the aftermath of the Immigration raid at Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant. He was arrested during the raid and …
Postville plant suspends meat operation DesMoinesRegister.com
Agriprocessors halts production at Postville plant Chicago Tribune
Financial problems close Gordon slaughterhouse
Chadron Record, NE - Nov 14, 2008
… 2008 The Gordon slaughterhouse run by Agriprocessors, Inc. has closed because of financial problems the kosher meat company faces at its Iowa plant. …
Meat processor raid pinches Cleveland’s kosher beef supply
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Nov 14, 2008
Agents detained 389 illegal immigrant workers. Agriprocessors, which supplied about 60 percent of the nation’s kosher meat, has since declared bankruptcy, …
Keeping kosher might cut into budgets Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Baltimore Jewish Times Kosher Meat Shortage Coming?
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - Nov 13, 2008
The plant is capable of producing approximately 50000 pounds of kosher meat daily, and Mr. Gilger said his workers will work overtime once production …
Upscale Kosher Eatery Closes
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - Nov 13, 2008
The upscale kosher restaurant Amanda’s, located in the back of Pomona Square shopping center in Pikesville, closed Oct. 28, just a year and two weeks since …
People of Postville see a complicated picture
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Oct 26, 2008
Longtime residents quietly grumbled when Hasidic Jews moved to Postville and opened Agriprocessors, the kosher meat processing plant, in 1987. …
Immigration raid takes bite out of nation’s kosher-meat supply
USA Today - Nov 12, 2008
… since US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Agriprocessors kosher-meat plant here on May 12 and detained 389 illegal immigrant workers. …
Troubles at meat plants prompt fears of kosher shortage Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Immigration raid linked to kosher decline United Press International
Kosher plant placed in federal receivership
Times of the Internet, Ohio - Nov 2, 2008
The company gained national attention in May, after its plant was raided and 400 illegal immigrant workers were arrested. Additionally, company executives …
People of Postville see a complicated picture
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Oct 26, 2008
Longtime residents quietly grumbled when Hasidic Jews moved to Postville and opened Agriprocessors, the kosher meat processing plant, in 1987. …
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