Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Philadelphia’s Federation President Set To Retire
Six years after becoming the first openly gay leader of a Jewish federation, Harold Goldman is retiring from his chief executive post in Philadelphia — without anyone following in his footsteps. At the end of June, Goldman, 63, is giving up his post as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He will be…
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News Federations Move Toward Gay Outreach
When the World Pride gay festival kicks off in Jerusalem in August, Philadelphia’s Jewish community will be the only one in the United States to send an official delegation. Several gay synagogues across the country are sending groups to the festival, which was originally planned for August 2005 but was pushed back to this summer…
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News One Rebbe or Two? As Heirs Feud, Satmar Sect Slides Toward Schism
The decade-long feud between two sons of the Satmar grand rebbe has long been cast as a battle from which one brother will emerge as the movement’s new spiritual leader. But since the rebbe’s death last week, it has become increasingly clear that neither brother plans to back down, paving the way for a likely…
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News As Las Vegas Booms, Infrastructure Lags
LAS VEGAS — Imagine a place where synagogue services are held in funeral parlors, casinos stand in for Jewish community centers and the rabbis have to plan their services at old-age homes, around gambling field trips. Welcome to Las Vegas. Thanks to a booming casino economy and the popularity of the Southwest among retirees, Las…
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News Reversing Jolson’s Path, Vegas Jazz Singers Are Trading Sequins for Cantorial Robes
Almost 80 years ago, Al Jolson captivated movie audiences with “The Jazz Singer,” a semi-autobiographical tale of a young singer who forsakes a career as a cantor to make it on Broadway. These days Jolson’s story has undergone an unlikely rewrite in Las Vegas — where three of the city’s largest synagogues boast cantors who…
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News Rebbe’s Funeral Sees Brief Respite From Family Feud
The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red and blue flashing of the police car sirens. The mourning was undercut by a steady anticipation of violence between followers of…
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Culture Color Me Jewish: One Group’s Quest For Whiteness
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity By Eric L. Goldstein Princeton University Press, 320 pages, $29.95. * * *| Last fall, researchers published a study claiming that higher IQ scores among Jews were a result of natural selection. This biological explanation for stereotypically Jewish traits was widely discredited by geneticists, but it…
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News History’s Scrap Heap: Families Sell Off Yards, and Legacy
LAS VEGAS — When Barry Kroot and his brother signed away the deed to their family’s scrap metal yard last month, they joined a new Jewish exodus. Like many other scrap metal businesses in America, K&F Industries got started when a relative (in this case, Barry’s grandfather) came from a Polish shtetl to small-town America….
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