Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Battle Forming Over Jewel of Yiddish Stage
For the past decade, the Yiddish theater district of Manhattan’s Second Avenue has been dark, save for one tiny flicker of activity in a four-story building on East 7th Street. Every few months, the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club would take over the second-floor banquet hall of the Hebrew Actors Union, located on the…
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News Holocaust Survivor Demands Klimt Painting From Lauder
The heirs to Estee Lauder have reveled in the publicity brought by their ownership of a number of prominent Gustav Klimt paintings, but it is safe to say that the attention they are receiving now is entirely unwanted. A Montreal man, George Jorisch, is claiming that Leonard Lauder, the former CEO of Estee Lauder, holds…
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News Orthodox Call on Sinners To Give Chickens a Fairer Shake
What happens when a ritual designed to remove sin might itself generate sin? That was the thorny question asked by rabbis who met in Brooklyn earlier this month in preparation for this year’s High Holy Days. The ritual in question is kapparot, a practice generally performed during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur…
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News Builder of Jewish Life in Russia is Now Accused of Hindering Its Growth
Until recently, the men and women responsible for leading Jewish life in Russia have avoided biting the hand that feeds them. The hand, in this case, is the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a New York-based charity that is responsible for much of the Jewish development in the former Soviet Union since the fall of…
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News Fired in Flap Over Construction Deal, Ex-Employee Sues Joint
The primary Jewish charity in Russia is being sued by a former employee who says he was fired after raising questions about a business deal in Moscow. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which is funded by American Jewish federations, is in Jerusalem court against Yoram Abergel. An employee of the JDC for 18 years…
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News Kosher Slaughterhouse’s Food-Safety Record Criticized by Regulators
The nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, already the subject of allegations about its treatment of both workers and animals, has also been chastised by government regulators for its food-safety record, according to newly released documents. The AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, received 250 noncompliance records from the United States Department of Agriculture during 2006, five of…
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News Food Safety Records Add to Woes of Nation’s Largest Kosher Slaughterhouse
The nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, already the subject of allegations about its treatment of workers and the animals it slaughters, has also been chastised by government regulators for its food safety record, according to newly released documents. The AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, received 250 non-compliance records from the United States Department of Agriculture during…
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Culture The Oracle of Prague
Just a few hours before I visited Lenka Reinerova in her Prague apartment, the Czech writer had gone through experimental radiation therapy for a cancer she has been battling since the 1940s. Reinerova lives alone, her only daughter hundreds of miles away in London, and I could imagine her feebly propping up her tiny 93-year-old…
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