Sources say that the company is trying to attract documented workers by offering wages higher than what the undocumented employees had received. But replacing a work force of hundreds could take months, experts on slaughterhouse labor say. more>
Every immigrant community in this city of immigrants must negotiate competing desires to remain unique and to assimilate. But while Russian, Bukharian and Middle Eastern Jewish communities are substantial enough to be visible within the larger Jewish landscape, New York’s tiny Indian-Jewish community has gone largely unnoticed. more>