magen-tzedek

CNN Writes About ‘Heksher Tzedek’ And Rubashkin

By admin on July 30, 2010

CNN’s Talya Minsberg filed this report:
Most religious dietary guidelines allow individuals to maintain a sense of holiness in their daily lives.
For many Jews, that sense was shattered in spring of 2006, when an Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa was raided and found to have hundreds of illegal immigrants and dozens of violations, from [...]

Hekhsher Tzedek Leaders Push for Better Wages, But Don’t Give Them

By admin on October 14, 2009

The following is excerpted from a report by Nathaniel Popper in The Forward:
Rabbi Michael Siegel has been a leading advocate for improving the treatment of workers in kosher food facilities. As the founding co-chair of the Hekhsher Tzedek program, Siegel was behind the release last month of detailed standards on how kosher companies should properly [...]

Magen Tzedek’s “Ethical Standards” Apply Even to Workers’ Wages

By admin on September 9, 2009

This post is a follow-up to the previous one about Heksher Tzedek. The following article by Nathaniel Popper appears in The Forward. The new Magen Tzedek/Heksher Tzedek  food certification, if allowed to establish itself, will be a thorn in the side of all frum Jews: 
The Conservative movement has released detailed guidelines for what experts say [...]