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Sderot, Israel…The recent events in the Gaza Strip have made it a daily challenge for many food manufacturing plants to maintain full scale production. Many employees of such major food plants as Osem, Elite, and Sogolowek have opted to stay home with their families in the wake of the daily barrage of rockets unleashed

New York…While the nation focused on a slow retail environment during this past holiday season, kosher distributors reported having a strong Chanukah season. At least two major distributors reported that they had 10% - 12% increases in sales. Amongst the items that did well were frozen latkes, and sufganiyot (jelly

New York…China has emerged as a key component in the remarkable worldwide success story of kosher. Some 1500 companies have taken the important step of obtaining kosher certification. The China story is so intriguing that none other than The New Yorker in its January 5th issue devoted a major feature: “Letter from

Washington, D.C…Several missives by major Jewish defense organizations for the release of Sholom Rubashkin have been ignored by the Bush Administration, namely Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Mr. Rubashkin, the former CEO of the bankrupt Agriprocessors, who is in a Dubuque, IA jail on bank fraud charges, has been