Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Orthodox See ‘Youth Advantage’
While the Reform and Conservative religious movements have long jockeyed for the title of the largest Jewish denomination in America, a new study finds that when it comes to the next generation, the Orthodox movement has the most children affiliated with its synagogues, setting the stage for a future shift in the balance of American…
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News Titans Take Over ‘Jewish Davos’ as Rape Allegations Sink Katsav
Back before he was facing indictment on rape charges, Israeli President Moshe Katsav hitched his star to the creation of a body of Jewish intellectuals and politicians that was to confront what he called the “crisis situation” facing the Jewish people. The gathering — initially referred to as a World Jewish Parliament — was originally…
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News The Gypsy Holocaust: Europe’s Other Wanderers Begin To Remember
SIBIU, Romania – As a member of one of Eastern Europe’s leading Gypsy families, Luminita Cioaba easily could have followed the traditional Romani path laid out by her nomadic ancestors. But that was never her way. When her father — a man who became known as the King of the Gypsies — was planning for…
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Culture Unrest Brews at Rebbe’s Resting Place
UMAN, Ukraine – On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the dirt roads on the northern edge of this central Ukrainian town had Jewish worshippers at every turn, transforming the site of a historic massacre into a place of dancing and prayer. The crowd — a collection of black-hatted Hasidim, tie-dyed teenagers from the West…
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News Pot Bust, Meat Scam Hit Kosher Companies
The evening of August 30 was a dark one for the kosher food industry. First, a group of rabbis in New York discovered boxes upon boxes of nonkosher meat in the warehouse of a major kosher meat distributor. At roughly the same time, in Pennsylvania, federal agents seized 726 pounds of marijuana at a kosher…
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Israel News Calls for Talks With Syria Increase in U.S., Israel
In the wake of the Lebanon war, influential policy makers in Washington and Jerusalem have begun pushing for a major diplomatic opening to Syria. Four members of the Israeli Cabinet, including Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, have called publicly in recent days for negotiations with Syria, which is seen by…
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News ‘Boom Burbs’ Filling Up on People, But Jewish Life Is Slow To Follow
In the fastest-growing city in America — Elk Grove, Calif. — there are no synagogues or Jewish community centers, but there is an upstart messianic congregation that offers a place for people of Jewish descent to worship Jesus. A far-flung suburb of Sacramento, Elk Grove offers a window onto the religious trends on the booming…
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News Workers at Kosher Plant Urged To Steer Clear of Union ‘Devils’
Already facing scrutiny over its treatment of workers, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of distributing a leaflet that warns its employees against the return of “union devils,” and of telling workers not to get “tricked into signing a card for the Union.” The pamphlet, which came with a Spanish translation, was handed…
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