Search for "American Airlines 1800-299-7264 Business Class Reservation Booking"

Is it Kosher Now? The Evolution of Kashrut in the Wake of the Agriprocessor Fiasco

By Benjamin Weiner

…are calling the Tav HaYosher—an “ethical seal” to be distributed to kosher businesses that conform to the activists’ standards of fair labor practices. (It has been noted that these are, in essence, no different than what the businesses are already expected to adhere to under New York state law.) Unlike the heksher tzedek, which also goes further in the moral obligations it places on the institutions that would seek its sanction, the tav does not…

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

…the New King James translation paired with inserts on Christian theology, American history, American “patriots,” and texts, poems, and hymns from US history. (And, in case the meaning behind this particular assortment of texts is too subtle, the subtitle, “The Word of God and the Shaping of America,” closes the circle.) Then there’s the KJV Military Bible, which features articles on patriotic themes like the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangle…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…o Professor John Kline, a Georgetown University Professor of International Business Diplomacy, Nike has expressed its commitment to decent wages. However, the company does not compensate its subcontractors enough to pay a living wage. In fact, Nike workers earn $3.50 a day in Indonesia. That’s not enough to purchase a gallon of milk there! It barely buys a Big Mac! Today no one can claim ignorance. Workers have journeyed to the U.S. to give gut-wr…

RDPulpit: Dry Bones & Oil Spills: the Dangerous Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa

By Peter Herman

…lies fled from the military into the jungle. This is all the cost of doing business, isn’t it? Make no mistake: this was not simply an example of a dictatorship run amok. Shell sent monetary aid to the regime. Shell requested “security operations” of the Nigerian military and police forces. Shell told the Nigerian regime to deal with Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other leaders of MOSOP. Shell’s lawyer attended their military tribunal. Brian Anderson, Mana…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…onization soars, remaining relatively high right through the 1960s; 7. Big business pushes back hard, flouting labor laws and hiring union-busting consultants to achieve “competitiveness” and “flexibility” during the 1970s and 1980s; business easily breaks the backs of the industrial unions by exercising the option to move production overseas; 8. With the labor movement now all but destroyed, we are back to servile acceptance of unfair, unjust pra…

Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…ize the process and keep it kosher, making him the Henry Ford of the matzo business, although presumably without the antisemitism. Eventually the company branched out into other kosher comestibles like macaroons, gefilte fish, crackers and the (in)famous wine. It stayed in family hands until 1990, when it was bought by a private equity group that included one firm with the ominous name of Harbinger. By 2014, Manischewitz had acquired other leading…

Taxpayers Cannot Be Forced to Fund Churches—Even in a Pandemic

By Andrew L. Seidel

…treasury, then the government is violating the religious liberty of every American. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: the Small Business Administration can put in place rules to ensure that the Constitution is not violated. As a number of secular groups pointed out to the SBA this week, those rules are already in place. For instance, “businesses principally engaged in teaching, instructing, counseling or indoctrinating religion or religious…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…d by a major 1935 West Coast strike to enlist a group of prominent Seattle business leaders to join him in promoting an anti-labor Christianity. And these good Jesus people didn’t just meet to pray away unionism; one of their number, a certain Arthur Langlie, went on to use state power to smash unions as mayor of Seattle and then governor of Washington State, declaring at the outset of his rise to power: “I am ready to let God use me!” From the be…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…Rich Iott is one of the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel people I know. We are business partners and very close personal friends. One of the first things I explained to Rich when we started working together was that I don’t work on Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath. He said, “That’s great, I’m glad you take a break every week and spend quality time with your family!” . . . . Rich has been an overnight guest in our Kosher home, his wife Chris, and their ch…

Using Science to Diss Religion

By Evan Derkacz

…hat the study consisted of “400 students drawn from introductory economics classes at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan.” That’s economics students from a college in a province that’s over 80% white. A province in which .7% of the population is comprised of religious non-Christians. But then how sexy is the headline “Among Christian economics students at a homogeneous Canadian university, those who claim that religion is important, in cont…