Llove Letters

There are a multitude of stories in the news now regarding the state of the State in Iowa. The Candidates for President are headed that way, and so the Media is looking for fodder. The most interesting report I have read thus far regards the town of Postville. (The Lookout, a Yahoo News blog, “Years after immigration raid, Iowa town feels poorer and less stable”, by Liz Goodwin) This improbably diverse rural town of about 2,000 people in northeastern Iowa suffered a near-fatal shock more than three years ago when a federal immigration raid scooped up 20 percent of its population in a single day. An ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Jewish family…