Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Survivors Ask Court To Alter Swiss Bank Settlement
A group of American Holocaust survivors is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to alter the terms of a mammoth Holocaust restitution agreement that is sending tens of millions of dollars to survivors in the former Soviet Union rather than to survivors in America. The petition, filed last week by the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA, a…
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News ZOA Pressed by Former Officials Over Guard’s Pay
A group of former presidents and executive directors from the Zionist Organization of America is putting pressure on the organization’s current leadership over severance payments that have been denied to the ZOA’s longtime security guard. Seven former ZOA presidents and executive directors have come together in the weeks since the Forward wrote an article describing…
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News Klein Offers To Pay Insurance for Official’s Widow
The national president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, has promised the widow of a former executive director that the organization will resume making payments for her health care — two years after those payments were abruptly cut off. Klein made the offer after the Forward inquired about the 89-year old widow’s situation….
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News Shoah Reparations Plan Draws Criticism
A Hungarian government program offering compensation based on the number of family members killed in the Holocaust is coming under fire from survivors whom the initiative is supposed to be helping. The Hungarian ambassador in Washington received a letter last week from six survivors who criticized an unusual reparations program that would pay Hungarian survivors…
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News How Much Is a Parent Worth? Holocaust Program Says $1,800
The Hungarian government soon will begin paying family members of Holocaust victims $1,800 for each sibling or parent who was murdered, rekindling old debates about “blood money” and the limits of reparations. The Hungarians agreed to the payments during a meeting in Budapest last week with the president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims…
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News Chabad Outfit To Endorse Military Chaplains
An ultra-Orthodox organization will start endorsing chaplains for the United States military, ending the 88-year-long monopoly on endorsements held by the multi-denominational body that had vetted all previous candidates. The Aleph Institute, an organization linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement previously known for helping Jewish prisoners, was approved last month by the Department of Defense to…
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News Zionist Organization’s Chief Faced Workplace Complaints
During the buildup to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza last year, the Zionist Organization of America and its outspoken national president, Morton Klein, spearheaded opposition to the plan among right-wing American Jews. At the same time that he was juggling Middle Eastern politics, however, Klein also was facing down a lawsuit from his ghostwriter and top…
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News Are ZOA’s Claims Inflated?
A potential donor browsing promotional material for the Zionist Organization of America would see a strong organization that has 50,000 members, 36 regional offices and three programs in Israel. But these numbers appear to be exaggerated. The number of dues-paying members is overstated by almost 40,000, and two of the three Israel programs no longer…
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