Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Jewish Extremist’s Unlikely Pal: Left-wing Rabbi
When Earl Krugel was bludgeoned to death in a prison gym earlier this month, his widow made what would seem to many an unlikely call — to Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak. The call was unlikely because while Krugel was imprisoned for his work with a militantly right-wing Jewish organization, the Jewish Defense League, Beliak is…
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News Chabad Makes Inroads at Parley
TORONTO — Before Eliezer Zalmanov came to Munster, Ind., no Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi had ever been the recipient of the local Jewish federation’s rabbinic award. There was a Chabad rabbi before Zalmanov. However, Zalmanov, 26, said that when he moved to Munster two years ago, the rest of the community still had suspicions about his ultra-Orthodox…
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News Federations Fail To Attract New Wealth
TORONTO — Local Jewish charitable federations have long seen themselves as the central address for Jewish giving, but their dominant status is in jeopardy, judging from the buzz in the halls and on the podiums at the annual General Assembly of United Jewish Communities. This past Sunday afternoon, participants in the annual event were set…
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Culture Birthright Israel Builds a Solid Foundation
Birthright Israel is only six years old, but it already has established itself as one of the most successful programs in the Jewish world. Steps are now being taken to make it a permanent part of the Jewish landscape. When Birthright was founded by a handful of innovative philanthropists, “it was an experiment,” said Charles…
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News N.Y. Judge Lashes Out as a Hasidic Feud Gets Physical
A New York state judge lashed out at two warring Hasidic factions after they clashed in a synagogue melee during last week’s holidays. New York Supreme Court Judge Stewart Rosenwasser is presiding in a case in upstate New York involving the supporters of two sons of the grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Moses…
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News Shoah Denier Squares Off With Jewish Agency Aide
A mounting Internet feud has led to the expulsion of a public leader of the Holocaust revisionist movement from Amazon.com and triggered a slew of threatening e-mails against a Jewish communal official. The trouble started soon after Allyson Rowen Taylor, associate director of the Los Angeles office of the American Jewish Congress, ordered one of…
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News The Next Blockbuster Movie — Coming Soon to a Church Near You
After an opening-weekend screening of the movie “Left Behind: World at War,” a pastor stood in front of the sheet onto which the movie had been projected at Temple Jehovah Shammah. “This evening, we’d like to make an invitation,” said the pastor of the nondenominational evangelical church in the South Bronx. “If you’d like to…
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News JCCs Fall by the Wayside in L.A.
LOS ANGELES — A ramshackle brick building in the bohemian Silver Lake neighborhood here still carries the name Jewish Community Center, but it is only because of some desperate local teamwork and a very non-Jewish hero. A year ago, the Silverlake JCC’s property was on the market and ready to go to the highest bidder….
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