Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News U.S.-Israel Tensions Rising On Eve of Disengagement
Despite the rapid approach of an unprecedented Gaza withdrawal that Israeli leaders depict as evidence of a high point in Israeli-American ties, the two allies have found themselves embroiled in recent days in a bewildering number of highly visible disputes of visceral intensity. Seemingly without connection to one another, Israel has become mired in simultaneous…
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News New York Skyline in the Balance As Real Estate Titans Square Off
It is a battle that has involved collapsing buildings, racially-charged protests and two of New York’s most powerful Jewish developers, pitted against each other for the future of New York’s skyline. At stake, say community activists, are the characters of two iconic, heavily Jewish New York neighborhoods known as bastions of middle-class liberalism. The main…
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News Muslim Council Condemns ‘Extremism’
Dozens of local Islamic centers and mosques across the country have held press conferences in the past week endorsing a recent religious edict — or fatwa — condemning “religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives.” The Fiqh Council of North America, a national body of 18 Muslim clerics, issued the fatwa on…
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News Terror Wave Leaves Leaders Scrambling
As world leaders scrambled this month to make sense of a seeming upsurge in deadly terrorist attacks around the globe, Israeli policymakers were struggling over how best to portray their nation’s place in the mayhem. In response to the attacks, some Israeli officials were suggesting that Palestinian strikes against Israel were part of the worldwide…
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News Religious Views Are Dividing The ‘Hidden Jews’ of Mexico
VENTA PRIETA, Mexico — On a dusty street in this small town, about 60 miles east of Mexico City, Eliseo Marron Tellez points out a cinder-block building that has served as the synagogue for his new Jewish congregation. Marron, along with many others in his town, is part of a Jewish community that was converted…
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Culture Plumbing Berlin for Yiddish Fiction
The Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson By Dovid Bergelson, Translated by Joachim Neugroschel City Lights Publishers, 120 pages, $14.95. * * *| Berlin’s role as the capital of Nazi Germany has crowded out most other memories of the city’s 20th-century Jewish history. In the 1920s, though, the city was a place…
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News Groups Focus on Court Nominee’s Church-state Views
The National Council of Jewish Women is vowing to oppose President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, John Roberts, but most other Jewish groups are asking only for a careful questioning. President Bush nominated Roberts, a judge on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, on Tuesday night. Roberts immediately won wide praise for…
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News Deaf Cupids Keep the World’s Silence at Bay
Matchmakers are known for being a talkative sort, but when Sam and Rachelle Landau practice their art, it’s all in the hands. The Landaus, the world’s only deaf Jewish matchmakers, ply their trade via fax machine, teletypewriter telephone and computer at their Elizabeth, N.J., home. Being cut off from the primary tool of modern romance…
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