Photo - A Large Menorah, a candalabrum lit During The Eight-Day Jewish Celebration of Hanukkah - Fine Art Photo Reproduction

Following the plant's closing during the 1970s, Jews from Brooklyn, New York, in sidelocks and black hats and other Orthodox attire startled local sensibilities when they showed up in town, bought the plant, then called Agriprocessors, and turned it kosher, brought in a number of rabbis and their families, and hired dozens of Hispanic and East European workers to staff the slaughterhouse. The town was rocked again in 2008 when immigration agents raided the plant and arrested and later deported hundreds of its illegal-alien workers, while the FBI arrested the plant's owner, Aaron Rubashkin, for fraud. He was convicted and imprisoned, and the plant went into bankruptcy again, only to be rescued and reopened yet again by another Orthodox Jew, Montreal, Canada, businessman Hershey Friedman. Hence the menorah, still in place on the plant that still operates as of the date of this photograph in 2016. | Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.|Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).|Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.