June 4, 2006

Broadcast Date: 
Jun 4 2006

Gruesome labor conditions in a kosher slaughtering and meat packing plant; a Palestinian blogger writes on the challenges of raising a son in Gaza City; and the dilemma faced by Orthodox Jewish women whose husbands won't grant them a Jewish divorce. [Audio forthcoming.]

Episode segments
  • JUNE 4 2006
    Religion, Jewish
    Nathanial Popper, staff writer at The Forward.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with Nathanial Popper, staff writer at The Forward about the exploitation of workers at a kosher slaughtering and meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa.

  • JUNE 4, 2006
    Occupation
    Laila El-Hadadd,Palestinian journalist and blogger
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with Palestinian journalist and blogger, Leila El-Haddad about the challenges of raising her young son in Gaza City.

  • JUNE 4, 2006
    Religion
    Blu Greenberg, founder of the Jewish Orthodox Women's Alliance
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with Orthodox feminist Blu Greenberg about the plight of agunah ("chained"), Jewish women whose husbands are unable or unwilling to grant them a Jewish divorce ("get").