Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Israel News NBC Reaches for New ‘Heights’
The “Seinfeld” coffee shop has long reigned as the symbol New York Jews on television. But soon a classroom at The Jewish Theological Seminary may replace it. The NBC television network is developing a new half-hour situation comedy about seminarians in New York, written by the husband of a Los Angeles rabbi. The show is…
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Israel News Rink Man Sits One Out
After a players’ strike canceled the entirety of last year’s National Hockey League season, one would think that Jeff Halpern, captain of the Washington Capitals, would be itching for any excuse to hit the ice. But the desire to play hockey does not trump all. Halpern’s Jewish commitments were able to keep his athletic urges…
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News Entrepreneurial Spirit Helps Revive Center
LOS ANGELES — Four-time Olympic gold-medal winner Lenny Krayzelburg now works in an office one floor down from the Los Angeles offices of American for Peace Now and the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. Krayzelburg opened his swim school in the new Westside Jewish Community Center. The building is not new — it is actually a dilapidated…
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News As Episcopalians Reject Divestment, Groups See a Threat to Israel Ebbing
The Episcopal Church of America voted this week to reject any campaign to divest from Israel, leading many Jewish organizations to claim that they had successfully beaten back the threat of a broad, liberal Protestant boycott. The executive board of the Episcopal Church unanimously endorsed a report stating that “nothing positive” would come from using…
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Israel News To Suit Up or Sit Out?
The ghosts of Sandy Koufax’s Yom Kippur day of rest are haunting baseball again, as Jewish players and fans are confronted with the annual question of how to deal with playoff games on the High Holy Days. This year, championship games for both the National League and American League are scheduled for the same time…
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News Israel Aims To Improve Its Public Image
Directors of Israel’s three most powerful ministries have agreed on a new plan to improve the country’s image abroad — by downplaying religion and avoiding any discussion of the conflict with the Palestinians. The plan was adopted during an October 2 meeting convened by the Foreign Ministry, involving its own director general and his counterparts…
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News Holocaust Lawyer Fights Accusation He Hired Underage Austrian Hooker
A prominent Holocaust restitution lawyer, Ed Fagan, is planning a trip to Austria to defend himself against published accusations that he hired an underage prostitute. Several Austrian publications have reported that the state prosecutor in Vienna is looking into contacts that Fagan and other individuals allegedly had with a prostitution ring that involved underage girls…
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News Jews Dispersed by Gulf Hurricanes Find a JCC on the World Wide Web
The recent evacuation of New Orleans was not the first time that Jews have been scattered to the four winds — but with this Diaspora, there is a new solution for holding an exiled community together: the Internet. Since being forced out of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the city’s Jews have reconstituted their community…
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