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Workers from the Tnuva dairy company in Israel have halted the distribution of cottage cheese to stores as part of a labor dispute, reminicent of last summers boycotts over economic inequality. The workers chose cottage cheese because it became a symbol of consumer revolt and frustration with the high cost of living in Israel during […]

Two Rockland County infants who had undergone the controversial circumcision rite of metzitzah b’peh were treated for neonatal herpes there in 2009, The Jewish Week has learned. According to the Rockland County health commissioner, Dr. Joan Facelle, in neither case was the health department able to make a link to a particular mohel because the […]