Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News As New Owners Take Over Meat Plant, Battered Postville Waits and Worries
The new owners of the beleaguered kosher meat company Agriprocessors are quickly facing criticism over their early management of the company. A team of three men took over control of Agriprocessors — now called Agri Star — at the beginning of August. The new team, led by Canadian businessman Hershey Friedman, and using the corporate…
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Life Thwarted Attempt To Transport Jerusalem Riots Stateside
The streets around the Israeli consulate in Midtown Manhattan had the normal midday rush at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, but there was not a black hat or protestor was in sight. The absence was notable because ultra-Orthodox organizers had called for a protest against the Israeli government at 2:30, across the street from the consulate…
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News Brooklyn’s Bicycle Man Uses Two Wheels To Bring Hasids and Hipsters Together
An unusual sign appeared in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in early August. On it is a large Star of David constructed out of 50 or so rubber chickens. In the middle of the star, Yiddish text offers a free bike loan to any of the Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidim who live in the area. You…
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News Birthright Scored for Picking P.R. Firm Tied To Scandal, Hard Right Politics
Taglit-Birthright Israel, one of the most widely praised Jewish communal programs, is facing a rare dose of criticism from within the Jewish world after deciding to hire a public relations company with big national clients — and a history of controversy. Birthright, which sends young Jews on free 10-day trips to Israel, has retained the…
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News Empire Strikes Back
When the poultry company Empire Kosher was on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, the man who had just taken over as CEO of the company, Greg Rosenbaum, called employees in for three straight days and nights of meetings in the firm’s board room, with food brought in and only brief breaks for…
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Life Boteach Unloads on Chabad
Television host, sex columnist and Orthodox rabbi Shmuley Boteach is no stranger to controversy, but this week he added his voice to a growing chorus of Orthodox Jews who believe that their religious community has to take a look in the mirror in the wake of the New Jersey money-laundering scandal. In an article in…
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Life Gangs of Tel Aviv
In its most impressive feat since its recent launch, Tablet magazine has just closed out a long series on the Israeli mob after a five-day run. The piece was smartly adapted to Tablet’s online-only format by appearing in short installments over the course of a week — like the old newspaper serials — and accompanied…
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Life A Money-Laundering Rabbi’s Brooklyn Mea Culpa
Every variety of fedora and yarmulke was on display as men poured into the central building of the Vizhnitz Hasidic community for a hastily arranged “legal symposium” Tuesday evening in Borough Park — the heart of ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn. As we reported in this week’s Forward, the symposium was a part of an effort by some…
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