The difficulty in hiring workers to perform skilled labor at Agriprocessors is delaying the company’s efforts to achieve production levels near pre-raid numbers…Sarah Cohen reports on a Brooklyn Culinary program graduating its first class of 12 and a new program to provide small food entrepreneurs with an industrial kitchen…In breaking news from Israel, Osem has acquired a major US kosher salad producer, which is also the subject of My Sixth Sense column…Russian Jews are behind a growing food export/import business between Israel and Russia…Here and There covers trouble at Burger Ranch, a new price war in supermarkets and an Israeli company is setting up a new egg and poultry production plant in Iowa. In our New Product Showcase, kosher Kobe beef is now being offered by Strube Ranch.

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-In-Chief