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Lewin: Herzfeld assertions are fallacious

Nat Lewin, the Washington attorney representing Agriprocessors, just sent us a response to Shmuel Herfzeld’s New York Times op-ed last week. Read the response after the jump. REPLY TO RABBI SHMUEL HERZFELD by Nathan Lewin In a front-page article asserting that minors had been hired to work in an Iowa kosher meat-packing plant and in […]

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Help to Hunter: In the tradition of “Tikkun Olam”?

A Jewish Democratic leader says the financial help Fred Baron gave to John Edwards’s former mistress could be classified as one of the acts of “Tikkun Olam” that the Dallas lawyer been doing for many years. Marc Stanley, chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council and a Dallas lawyer, called Baron “an exceedingly generous person” […]

Swapping old Jewish swim records for new ones

Jewish-American swimmers Garret Weber-Gale and Jason Lezak, along with Cullen Jones and the unstoppable Olympic champion Michael Phelps, made history in the pool on Monday, August 11. The US relay team won the Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay and smashed the world record by nearly four seconds on their way to the gold. In […]

New York’s Chasidic mover and shaker: Isaac Abraham

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The Jewish link to the Edwards scandal

A.B. Yehoshua’s Tisha B’Av lament

Jews fit to print

Cohen beats Tinker

Jews in the Water Cube

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