Date of publication: March 7, 2007
Source: Washington Jewish Week
Excerpt from article:
Jews concerned about social justice now can buy kippot from companies that shun sweatshop labor. That's the newest initiative of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (www.pjalliance.org [1]), which declared March to be Sweatshop Awareness Month. As part of its ongoing Kosher Clothes Campaign aimed at persuading Jewish groups to support fair wages and working conditions, the California-based group lists companies that produce union- or cooperative-made T-shirts, kippot and other articles of clothing...