Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Video Renews Beefs About Slaughterhouse’s Practices
A video from a kosher slaughterhouse in Nebraska is reigniting concern about the way the nation’s largest kosher meat company handles its animals. The three-and-a-half minute video shows bloody images of cows being killed at the Local Pride slaughterhouse in Gordon, Neb., which is owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family. The footage was filmed and…
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News Real Estate Titans Split in Messy Divorce
The relationship seemed so promising under the warm glow of the Caribbean sun. Five years ago, Shaya Boymelgreen, an Orthodox real estate developer in Brooklyn, and Lev Leviev, the wealthiest man in Israel, seemed like a match made in heaven. After a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi introduced them during a kosher cruise, the two created a joint…
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News Landlord Trouble
One of the first Jewish institutions to be established in post-Soviet Russia may have to shut its doors at the end of this year, due to a struggle with one of America’s largest Jewish charities. The Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg received a letter last month from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known…
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News WJC Looks to Cosmetics Heir for Image Makeover
Bigwigs from six continents gathered in New York last weekend to elect Ronald Lauder the new president of the World Jewish Congress. The vote took place Sunday in midtown Manhattan, just above the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and brought together an unusual collection of top representatives from most of the largest Jewish communities in the…
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News Singer Ends Career at Claims Conference
In a move that will likely end one of the most high-powered careers in the Jewish communal world, Rabbi Israel Singer announced this week that he would step down from his post at the top of the world’s leading Holocaust restitution body, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The Claims Conference announced Tuesday…
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News Backroom Deals Shape Fight for WJC Leadership
While the upcoming elections for the leadership of the World Jewish Congress came about after the organization was criticized for lacking transparency, a number of newly released documents suggest that the elections are being shaped by a series of secretive backroom deals. The most surprising result of the recent jockeying came May 30 when the…
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News Lauder’s Foundation Paid Conference Leader $50,000
During the recent years of controversy at the World Jewish Congress, much attention has been paid to the financial relationship between the organization’s president, Edgar Bronfman, and his professional lieutenants. Now, as cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder bids to take over Bronfman’s position, tax documents shed light on Lauder’s relationship with his lieutenants in the Jewish…
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News Fund Pays Heirs of Wrong ‘Hans Leipziger’
A few years ago, the family of a European Jew named Hans Leipziger was given a check for 150,000 Swiss francs to compensate for a bank account that Leipziger held before the Nazis came to power. It was a nice ending to an old story, except for one problem: The check appears to have gone…
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