Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News The Man Bitcoin Built – and Then Destroyed
This article is excerpted and adapted from “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money” by Nathaniel Popper. Charlie Shrem sits in prison in central Pennsylvania, the cautionary face of the futuristic movement that developed around the virtual currency Bitcoin. This can seem a rather unlikely position…
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News One Journalist’s Jewish Journey
Now that I have left the Forward to join the reporting staff at the Los Angeles Times, I am no longer faced with the familiar look from old friends when I tell them where I work. “You work for a Jewish newspaper!?” they’d ask incredulously. “I didn’t even know you were Jewish.” I never figured…
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News Bowing to Market, Consumer Demand, Some Jewish Nursing Homes Go Treyf
Kosher food makes a Jewish home. That has been the thinking for the past 29 years at Martins Run, a Jewish retirement community outside Philadelphia where every meal served in the white-tablecloth dining rooms has been certified kosher. But the thinking about what makes a Jewish home is changing. During the past year, Martins Run,…
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News A Ghostly Trace of the Jewish Occult
A newly discovered piece of stained, wrinkled paper conjures up the details of a Jewish exorcism that appears to have been performed sometime in the 18th or 19th century. The ghostly document details the prayers that were performed on Qamar bat Rahmah to try to rid her of the spirit of her dead husband, Nissim…
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News Did Brooklyn DA Chase Sex Abuser?
Brooklyn’s district attorney has lost a key fight in his effort to keep the lid on details of how he has dealt with a high-profile sex-abuse case in the Orthodox Jewish community. A New York Supreme Court judge ruled November 23 that Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes must release documents related to the case…
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Life The Lone Orthodox Jew at Notre Dame
The New York Times got lots of attention for their attention to profiling lonely Jews — most recently, the few Jews in Montana. But what about being the [only] Orthodox Jew at the nation’s most famous Catholic university, Notre Dame? It is apparently a struggle against constant misunderstanding, as an article in a local college…
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Life Hasidic-Controlled School Board Roils Rockland County
Things have gone from bad to worse for the Hasidic Jews living in New Square and a few other Hasidic enclaves near the Catskills. A few weeks ago, we told you about the battle in Rockland County over a proposed kosher slaughterhouse that would be built less than a hundred feet from a residential neighborhood…
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News Agri Workers In Limbo After Rubashkin’s 2nd Trial Is Dropped
For the past year, nearly 40 undocumented immigrants from Latin America have been kept in the United States for one reason: to testify against their former bosses at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant. On November 19, the same prosecutors who had pushed for the witnesses to be kept in the country quietly announced that the…
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