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Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity

By Nathaniel Popper

Novelist and playwright Franz Molnar’s life was always high on drama. He wrote works that were tuarned into Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite “Carousel.” In his personal life, Molnar fled Hungary to escape the Nazis and lived the high life in New York City until his death in 1952.Read More


Judge: Kosher Company Illegally Coerced Workers Before Union Election

By Nathaniel Popper

A company that recently became the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, Alle Processing, was found by the National Labor Relations Board to have illegally intimidated its employees before a union election last fall.Read More


Bankrupt Agriprocessors Slated for Sale

By Nathaniel Popper

The troubled kosher meat company Agriprocessors is set to be sold to a new Jewish owner. Agriprocessors has been owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family, but it went bankrupt last fall after a massive immigration raid at the company’s Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse.Read More


Posh Prison Parties Just the Latest Act for Satmar Power Broker

By Nathaniel Popper

Long before he managed to organize a lavish bar mitzvah inside a New York City jail, Rabbi Leib Glanz developed a reputation for making things happen within New York’s ultra-Orthodox Satmar community.Read More


Orthodox Organization Defends Chaplain Accused of Favoring Jewish Inmates

By Nathaniel Popper

The nation’s leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella organization is preparing to go to bat for a disgraced prison chaplain who is accused of giving favors to Jewish inmates.Read More



 

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