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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:


 


"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

 

Jewish Community Action
2375 University Avenue West, Suite 150
St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone 651/632-2184  Fax 651/632-2188