Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News New Studies Put U.S. Jewry Over 6 Million Mark
Two major new demographic studies estimate the American Jewish population at well above 6 million people, indicating a growing Jewish community that contrasts sharply with popular images of Jewish decline. In particular, scholars say, the new studies appear to refute a widely publicized survey conducted in 2001, which counted 5.2 million American Jews and sparked…
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News Rabbis Pledge To Monitor Kosher Plant Conditions
Leaders of Conservative Judaism are planning to create a new ethical certification system for kosher food in response to the findings of a special commission that investigated working conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. The five-person commission, formed by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly, was created following an investigative…
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Culture A Magazine for the Far-flung
Some Jews arrive in Israel and discover it is their homeland. Other Jews get there only to realize that, after all that, “home” is the place they just left. One such traveler was Joshua Ellison, a young man who moved from Providence, R.I., to Jerusalem on a Dorot Fellowship three years ago. Ellison immediately came…
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News Conservative Rabbis Pledge Groundbreaking System for Monitoring Working Conditions at Kosher Plants
Leaders of Conservative Judaism are planning to create a new ethical certification system for kosher food in response to the findings of a special commission that investigated working conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. The five-person commission, formed by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly, was created following an investigative…
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News Orthodox Boom Burb Wins Over Locals
Englewood, N.J. – Twenty years ago, the Jewish face of this city was its Conservative synagogue, which had gathered in a community of young affluent couples who left behind their impoverished urban childhoods as well as the Orthodox religion of their parents. Today that synagogue, Temple Emanuel, has moved to a smaller, less affluent suburb…
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News WJC Dispute Focuses on Control of Jerusalem Office
Months after emerging from a lengthy battle with one of its former leaders, the World Jewish Congress is now embroiled in a feud with its Israeli branch regarding a dispute over control of the organization’s Jerusalem office. Members of the Israeli branch say that the New York-based secretary general of the WJC, Stephen Herbits, recently…
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News Eastern Europeans Chafe as Charity Pulls American Funds
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Even in the strange capitalist environment of post-Soviet Russia, the Nadezhda factory in suburban St. Petersburg stands out. The factory, which produces walkers and crutches, was built not by one of Russia’s new tycoons but rather by an American charity: the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Its name comes from the…
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News For Needy, Agency Offers Lifeline
KIEV, Ukraine – Kiev is one of the greenest cities in Europe, but Anatoly Kravets and his wife have not been out of their one-bedroom apartment for the past year. The apartment is a third-floor walk-up, and Anatoly had one of his legs amputated last year, leaving him confined to a clunky red wheelchair that…
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