Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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Breaking News Immigration Authorities Arrest Hundreds in Raid on Nation’s Largest Kosher Meat Plant
Federal authorities have raided the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse in an operation that appears to be aimed at rounding up undocumented immigrants who work at the plant. Agents with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch arrived at the AgriProcessors meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa, on the morning of May 12 and…
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News Israeli Diamond Magnate’s Business Unwelcome in Dubai
Last month, Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev announced plans to open two eponymous jewelry stores in Dubai, but steps taken by officials in the emirate seem to indicate that Leviev’s business is not welcome there. In mid-April, representatives of the Soviet-born billionaire, who has been active in funding building projects in the West Bank, announced…
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Israel News Never Forget: Hip-Hop Artist Looks to Youth
‘Does anybody have a tissue?” Grammy Award-winning hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari asked. “I’m having a moment.” Ben-Ari’s “moment” came in the middle of a Yom HaShoah kickoff event for the Gedenk Foundation, the Holocaust education program she recently founded. Gedenk plans to raise awareness of the Shoah through popular music and media, and to reach…
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News Activists Who Exposed Meat Industry Reveal Their Own (Kosher) Identity
When AgriProcessors, America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was caught on tape conducting what a federal agency later called “acts of inhumane slaughter,” officials at the plant knew they had been infiltrated by undercover investigators. What the company didn’t know was that two of those infiltrators were a married couple who keep kosher themselves. Meet Hannah and…
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Israel News Plaza Hotel Takes Visitors On a Musical Journey
Hotel lounge music isn’t usually a genre associated with experimental compositions, but a collaboration between composer Ariel Blumenthal and the Plaza Hotel in New York might change that. The newly reopened Plaza, which now houses apartments in addition to hotel rooms, is outfitted with a complex — and very expensive — sound system that has…
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News Dramatic Journey: A Personal Story
Hilarity might not be the most obvious feature of the Ethiopian Jewish community’s arduous migration to Israel, but playwright Yossi Vassa has not only made that trek as a child, he also has a background in stand-up comedy. In “One of a Kind,” a play that Vassa co-wrote with Shai Ben Attar about his family’s…
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Life Yid Vid: Rosh Hashanah Girl Returns… for Passover
Michelle Citrin and William Levin, the Jewish YouTube impresarios who last year brought us “I Gotta Love You [Rosh Hashana](https://forward-hcl50.orc.scoolaid.net/schmooze/320610/rosh-hashana/ “Rosh Hashana”)h” (a Taglit-Birthright Israel –sponsored parody of a parody) are back with “20 Things To Do With Matzah” (sponsored by Streit’s matzo factory). Says Levin of filming the new video, “Most people are cleaning…
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News Streit’s Customers Bid Farewell
The Streit’s Matzo factory, a landmark on Manhattan’s Lower East Side since it opened in 1925, is gearing up to leave for more affordable climes. To commemorate the factory’s place in the neighborhood, casting director Mikie Heilbrun, whose great-grandfather, Aron, founded Streit’s and whose cousins run it today, is making a documentary film incorporating the…
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