Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Israel News Top Kazakh Rabbi: In My Country There’s No Problem
In the fictional version of Kazakhstan in the hit movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the only Jews in the country are larger-than-life caricatures that get trotted out for a ceremonial “Running of the Jew.” In the real Kazakhstan, the top rabbi, Menachem Mendel Gershowitz, has never been…
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News Chabad vs. Chabad: Rabbis Duel in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine – Since assuming the title of chief rabbi of Ukraine last fall, Moshe Reuven Azman has hosted Ukraine’s president, helped negotiate American-Ukrainian trade deals and invited Israeli soldiers to his Kiev synagogue. All of this might appear to be a big step forward for the Brooklyn-based Orthodox Hasidic sect that trained Azman, Chabad…
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News Kosher Goes High Tech in Fraud Fight
Kosher consumers already have to worry about whether their meat came from a cloven-hoofed animal that chews its cud, has no lung adhesions, had its blood vessels removed and received a proper salt bath within 72 hours of the slaughter. But soon there will be something else to fret about: the authenticity of the meat’s…
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News Boston Study Shows 60% of Interfaith Kids Raised Jewish
A new study has found that a significant majority of the children from intermarried couples in the Boston area are being raised Jewish — one reason for a surprising overall increase in the region’s Jewish population. The findings from Boston could fuel and shift the long-standing national debates over Jewish demographic trends, a seemingly obscure…
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News Jewish-Muslim Incident Rocks Ethnic Balance
The Voice of America recently beamed a story around the world about the Midwood section of Brooklyn, presenting the neighborhood as a model of ethnic harmony where Orthodox Jews rub shoulders with Pakistani Muslims. Until recently, one shining example of the inter-ethnic cooperation was the Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins under the elevated subway tracks at Avenue M…
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News David Duke Offers ‘Antisemitism 101’ at a Ukrainian University
UMAN, Ukraine –Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke visited Ukraine’s largest university last week to give a stump speech on what he calls “radical Jewish extremists” — his phrase for the Israeli and American government. Duke has become a regular at the university, the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management, which is known by its Ukrainian…
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News WJC Audit: $3 Million Unaccounted For
The dimensions of a recent financial scandal at the World Jewish Congress appear to be significantly broader than has been publicly known, judging from an unreleased audit that found about $3 million to have been withdrawn from the organization’s accounts with no documented explanation. The missing sum of 3.85 million Swiss francs is detailed in…
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News Budapest Ghetto Gets Facelift
The newest nightspot in Budapest opened its doors Sunday night on Kiraly Street in the heart of what used to be this city’s Jewish ghetto. The three-level bar hosted a Hebrew rapper in the theater space downstairs, paintings by a young Hungarian Jew dotted the second-floor gallery, and on the front door was a mezuza…
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