Date of publication: November 27, 2008
Source: New Jersey Jewish News
Author: Johanna Ginsberg
Newark shop boasts yarmulkes made with union labor
Mitch Cahn of Montclair at his Newark company, Unionwear, one of the few union shops left in the country that produces baseball caps. His line of yarmulkes are part of the Kosher Kippot campaign launched in 2007 by the Progressive Jewish Alliance that encourages people to buy fair trade and sweatshop-free kipot. Photo courtesy Mitch Cahn.
Is your kipa kosher? If it was made in Mitch Cahn’s Unionwear shop in Newark, it is. If it was made somewhere else, according to the Progressive Jewish Alliance, the chances are slim...