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Hekhsher Tzedek
Magen Tzedek -
Sign Up!
Magen Tzedek (of the Hekhsher Tzedek
Commission) is a new initiative to improve the working conditions,
treatment of employees, environmental standards and business practices
in kosher food-producing businesses.
Click to Sign Up as a Supporter of Magen Tzedek
Jewish Community Action Works to Improve
Conditions in Kosher Food Industry
Jewish Community Action is honored to work with the Hekhsher Tzedek
Commission in their new initiative to improve the working conditions,
treatment of employees, environmental standards, and business practices
in kosher food-producing businesses.
The mission of the Hekhsher Tzedek Commission is to bring the Jewish
commitment to ethics and social justice directly into the marketplace --
and the home. The Commission’s seal of approval, the Magen Tzedek, will
help assure consumers that kosher food products were produced in keeping
with the highest possible Jewish ethical values and ideals for social
justice in the area of labor concerns, animal welfare, environmental
impact, consumer issues and corporate integrity.
The Hekhsher Tzedek Commission is a joint project of the Rabbinical
Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Seed funding
is provided by the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Jewish Community Action works with the Hekhsher Tzedek Commission to
educate, involve and engage the local Jewish community and to
demonstrate to producers that our community cares about the conditions
under which our food is produced.
Questions? Comments? Interested in helping out? Contact
Melissa Rudnick at Jewish Community
Action: 651.632.2184.
Latest News:
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"You
shall not exploit an employee, whether a countryman or a stranger in
your land, within your community."
– Deuteronomy 24: 14-15
Hundreds of
workers at the nation’s largest kosher food plant face uncertain future,
family separation, detention and deportation in wake of immigration
raid.
Twin Cities
Rabbis visit Postville to provide counsel to families affected by raid;
hear accounts of widespread mistreatment and abuse at plant.
To read Rabbi
Kravitz’s reflection on his trip to Postville, Iowa click
here.
To support workers in Postville,
you can mail you donations to:
Jewish Community Action/Attn Postville
2375 University Avenue W, Suite 150
Saint Paul, MN 55114-1633
OR
To make a credit card donation over the phone call
JCA at:
651-632-2184
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