Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Israel News Celebrity Stylist Goes National
A-list celebrities are among the regulars at Yuki Sharoni’s Beverly Hills salon. But well before the likes of Jessica Alba and Demi Moore found their way into his chair, Sharoni attended to a very different sort of hot shot. As a young soldier in the Israeli army, Sharoni would secretly coif his commanding officer’s curly…
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News Immigration Issue Crosses Religious Borders
Nearly 200 illegal immigrants have died in the deserts south of Tucson, Ariz., as they attempted to sneak across the border. In an effort to keep that figure from rising, volunteers from the Jewish community in Tucson have gone out into the desert to refill water barrels for immigrants crossing over the border from Mexico….
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News Pakistan’s President To Meet With American Jewish Leaders
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has agreed to speak to a group of Jewish communal leaders when he comes to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly. The event was planned after a secret meeting in Pakistan between Musharraf and three top officials at the American Jewish Congress in late May. Invitations have…
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News Beard Ban Deters Chabad Rabbis From Becoming Chaplains in Army
By most measures, Yisroel Newman, 25, and other young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis like him are the obvious solution to the army’s severe shortage of Jewish chaplains. These young rabbis are trained by a movement dedicated to reaching Jews wherever they may be, no matter how remote. The peripatetic military lifestyle would not be much more difficult…
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News Fire Department Gets Jewish Chaplain
The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department is in the center of a heavily Jewish area of Maryland, but it was only last month that the 85-year-old fire department got its first Jewish chaplain. At their monthly meeting in July, the 225 members voted to accept a young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, Chesky Tenenbaum, as a chaplain. Tenenbaum recently…
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News Gaza Evacuation Transforms Israeli Landscape
As Israel carries out its historic pullout from Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian officials are reporting the highest levels of trust and cooperation between the two sides since before the outbreak of the current violence five years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon originally billed the pullout — including the dismantling of all 21 Jewish settlements in…
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News Shul Dispute Nears End
After a lengthy court battle and an investigation by the New York attorney general, an Orthodox synagogue union will be allowed to sell its Manhattan building. The initial efforts to sell the building drew a lawsuit from the congregation that it houses, Young Israel of Fifth Avenue. Leaders of the congregation opened court proceedings three…
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News … And Reselling It With a Hand From the Free Market
If the free market is a good indicator of success, then American Jewish organizations struggling to recruit young members have something to learn from a small private tour operator in Israel called Oranim. Oranim is one of 20 nonprofit and commercial organizations vying to bring kids on Birthright Israel, the wildly successful five-year old program…
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