Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America is a 2000 book by journalist Stephen G. Bloom. The book documents the struggle between the small town of Postville, Iowa, and a group of new arrival
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In Judaism, shechita is ritual slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food according to kashrut. One who practices this, a kosher butcher, is called a shochet.
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
…a Lubavitcher Hasidic butcher from Brooklyn, purchased an unused meat-rendering plant and turned it into a state-of-the-art facility for producing glatt kosher meat. A group of a few hundred Hasidim joined him to help manage and operate the facility, which grew to employ 900. The town's population of around…
A 15th-century depiction of shechita and bedikah
Slaughtering poultry according to religious rules, Shalom Koboshvili, 1940
Shechita permit from Rome, 1762. Today in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection.
Shechita slaughter of a chicken