Agriprocessors Campaign

Kosher Meat Plant Boss Wins Child-Labour Case. The Jewish Chronicle Online. 17 June 2010.

The beleaguered former manager of America's largest kosher meatpacking plant has been cleared by a jury of employing underage workers.

"These charges were antithetical to everything Sholom Rubashkin is about and the acquittal vindicates him both as a person and as a businessman," said Guy Cook, a member of Mr Rubashkin's defence team. "He is overjoyed." Read more...

Wiener, Julie. "Orthodox Come to Rubashkin's Defense." The Jewish Week. 17 Nov. 2009.

Sholom Rubashkin, the manager of the now-infamous Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa, has only completed one of two federal trials, and already — barring a successful appeal — he is looking at a life in prison. Read more...

Berger, Paul.  "Trial of kosher meat plant owner opens."  The Jewish Community Online.  15 October 2009.

The former CEO of America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant went on trial this week.  Read more...

Lipowsky, Josh.  “Rubashkins on the Rebound.”  New Jersey Jewish Standard.  30 July 2009.

"As you stroll through your local supermarket, you may notice a few items you have not seen in a while. Agriprocessors, which sells under the names Aaron’s Best, Shor Habor, Supreme Kosher and Rubashkins, has reappeared on the kosher scene following a tumultuous year that included allegations of immigration violations, worker abuse, and fraud."  Read more...

Brostoff, Marisa.  “In Heated Meeting, Orthodox Activists Spar With Kosher Meat Company.”  The Forward.  19 June 2008.

"When two progressively minded Orthodox rabbinical students sat down last week at a Manhattan kosher dairy restaurant with four Lubavitch businessmen, radically different segments of the Orthodox world collided, and sparks flew."  Read more...

Lando, Michal.  “Iowa Meat Plant Taken to Task for Abusive Practices.”  Jerusalem Post.  22 June 2008.

"Jewish summer camps have returned shipments of expired meat, an Orthodox-led boycott is under way, contractors have pulled out and an increasing number of Jewish organizations are joining in protest against the largest US kosher meatpacking company, which has been under intense scrutiny since being raided last month."  Read more...

“Raid Unsettles Kosher Beliefs.”  The Wall Street Journal.  1 July 2008.

"An immigration raid on the country's largest kosher meatpacking plant has fueled a nationwide debate in the Jewish community about what it really means to be kosher."  Read more...

Hart, Ari; Shmuly Yanklowitz.  “Repairing a Sacred Relationship.”  Haaretz.  8 September 2008.

"With black helicopters buzzing overhead, scores of U.S. Federal agents on May 12 conducted the largest immigration raid in American history, at a meatpacking plant in the small town of Postville, Iowa."  Read more...

Orbach, Michael.  “Younger Generation sees Rubashkin Case in Black and White.”  The Jewish Star.  26 November 2008.

"Three days after Sholom Rubashkin, the former CEO of Agriprocessors, was denied bail by the federal court, and two months after Iowa’s attorney general charged the company’s slaughterhouse in Iowa with thousands of child labor law violations, Zehava Zelasko, 28, waxed philosophical about the case in the Young Israel of Woodmere."  Read more...

Rosenblatt, Gary.  “Keeping Kosher.”  The Jewish Week.  6 August 2008.

"What lessons can we take away from all the embarrassing reports about Agriprocessors, the largest kosher slaughterhouse in America, accused of abuse of both animals and workers in its Postville, Iowa plant?"  Read more...