Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Culture Touro College Reaches Beyond the Jewish World
This fall, Touro College will open a new campus in Miami Beach and a new school of social work on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Such expansion has recently become routine for the traditionally Jewish university; in the past five years alone, Touro opened new campuses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Berlin. Founded…
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Culture ORT’s Nonsectarian Work Booms
When ORT opened a computer-learning center in Brooklyn last year, the focus was on Orthodox Jewish students, but, within a few weeks, non-Jewish kids from the neighborhood were asking to take part. Now the Jews and non-Jews work next to each other every Tuesday and Thursday after school. The computer lab is a representative example…
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News World Jewish Congress Drops Libel Suit
The World Jewish Congress announced that it was dropping a controversial lawsuit against one of its former leaders after encountering growing opposition to the legal fight from affiliates across the globe. Just last week, the WJC’s Australian affiliate resigned from the New York-based organization because of opposition to the libel lawsuit against Isi Leibler, a…
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News Shooting Brings Mideast Fight Home
Security experts are warning that last week’s deadly shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is part of a tide of anti-Jewish sentiment that has been rising since the beginning of Israel’s incursion into Lebanon — and could lead to more violent attacks against Diaspora communities. The shooter in Seattle, who has been described…
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News Victims Press Brooklyn D.A. To Seek Abuse Suspect’s Extradition From Israel
In the wake of new revelations about sexual abuse in the Orthodox community, pressure is mounting on the Brooklyn district attorney to seek the extradition of a man who fled to Israel after being indicted for sex offenses. Avrohom Mondrowitz was indicted in 1984 on four counts of sodomy and eight counts of sexual abuse…
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News Study: U.S. Museums Lag on Art Info
On the eve of fresh congressional hearings about the return of artworks looted during the Nazi era, a new study indicates that American museums have lagged behind on commitments they made in the late 1990s to research and publicize potentially looted artworks. The study, conducted by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against…
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News Lack of Meat Choices Not Kosher, Say Conservative Shuls in St. Paul
When Amy Markon set out to find a cheaper source of kosher meat for her family, the mother of four had no idea what she was in for. Since moving to St. Paul, Minn., seven years ago, Markon had grown increasingly bothered by her limited choices when it came to buying kosher beef. The woman,…
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News Musical Reflects on Shoah
Last week, in the small German city of Neumarkt, the curtain went up on an improbable musical about the life and death of a young Jewish woman who was deported and killed by the Nazis. The production was unlikely in part because of the Broadway format chosen for a Holocaust tale. But more than this,…
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