Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Conservative Writer Keeps Islamic Group in Sights
One of President Bush’s former speechwriters is unrepentant after settling a lawsuit with a Canadian Islamic organization that had sued him. David Frum, the speechwriter who helped coin the term “axis of evil,” was sued in 2004 by the Canadian division of the Council on American-Islamic Relations over columns he wrote in Toronto’s National Post…
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News Next Generation Of Pulpit Rabbis Shakes Up L.A.
Across Los Angeles, the nameplates on the rabbis’ doors have been changing at an unusually fast rate. Last week, in the latest instance, Edward Feinstein officially took over as senior rabbi at the largest Conservative synagogue in the area, Valley Beth Shalom. All told, within the last five years close to 25 new rabbis have…
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News Hurricane Relief Plan Stirs School Vouchers Debate
The Bush administration’s plan to pay for the private school education of Hurricane Katrina evacuees has triggered the first major debate over church-state separation in the relief effort. During a tour of Houston last week, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings proposed that the government give $488 million to private schools that have taken in evacuated children…
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News Sharon Extends Visit To Meet Jewish Leaders
Prime Minister Sharon came to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, but he stayed on for the weekend to meet with Jewish communal leaders and donors. On Friday, Sharon met with close to 150 top donors to the United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of North America’s local Jewish charitable federations, to…
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News Latino Food Workers in Los Angeles Acquire a Knack for Kosher Cooking
LOS ANGELES — The strictest rabbinic authorities certify the kosher restaurants lining Pico Boulevard, but most of the people preparing the food are Latinos who never had met a rabbi before taking their current jobs. At the Pico Kosher Deli, the man behind the meat slicer, Rene Baraona, 31, grew up in a Catholic family…
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News Judge Rejects Shoah Survivors’ Appeal
A federal appeals judge rejected a request from American Holocaust survivors for a greater share of any remaining money in the $1.25 billion Swiss bank case. The American survivors were appealing a March 2004 memorandum that promised 75% of any remaining funds in the case to needy survivors in the former Soviet Union. In a…
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News Jewish Charities Mobilize To Aid Katrina Victims
As refugees from Hurricane Katrina fanned out across the country, Jewish communities nationwide began to feel the effect as evacuees arrived on their doorsteps. The Jewish communities closest to New Orleans have been most fully engaged in the relief work. It is estimated that half of the ruined city’s 10,000 Jews went to Houston. The…
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News Jerusalem Hoping To See Wish List In U.N. Reforms
UNITED NATIONS — Israel and its supporters are hoping that a comprehensive reform package to be adopted next week during the United Nations General Assembly will open the door to some of the key changes that Jerusalem has been demanding for years. “We see in this General Assembly [what may be a] unique opportunity to…
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