Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News African Poverty Surging on Communal Agenda
With a G-8 summit and a wave of worldwide protests shining a sudden global spotlight on African poverty, several major American Jewish organizations are taking steps to put the continent’s troubles high on the agenda of Jewish advocacy and planning in the months ahead. The American Jewish Committee confirmed this week that it is moving…
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News Colorado Federation Sees Donations Rise
The annual fundraising campaigns at local Jewish charitable federations have not been a growth industry in recent years, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the situation in Denver. Since a new CEO arrived at the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado in 2002, the annual campaign has grown 51%. When the 2005 annual campaign…
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News British Leftist Pol Turns Anti-Israel Stance Into Electoral Strategy
George Galloway, a leftist British politician who recently launched his own party, never has been much of a supporter of Israel, but in the last two months his political star has risen after a series of confrontations with Jewish politicians. First, in early May, Galloway won a seat in parliament by unseating Oona King, a…
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News Speaker Nixed At ZOA Parley
One prominent no-show at the ZOA gathering was Stephen Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. Schwartz, a convert to Islam and a former Washington correspondent for the Forward, was scheduled to speak Tuesday about Saudi Arabia. But days earlier, his name was quietly removed from the press release on the ZOA’s Web…
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News Lawyers’ Fees Questioned In Gold Train Settlement
An out-of-court settlement has put the moral questions surrounding the Hungarian Gold Train on hold, but a new debate has sprung up over how much money should go to attorneys who prosecuted the case. Last week, the law firms involved petitioned the judge for $3.85 million of the $25.5 million that the American government has…
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News Under a Cloud, a Lawyer For Survivors Soldiers On
A decade after he shot to fame as a Holocaust restitution lawyer, attorney Ed Fagan now does most of his business from a cell phone. Deeply in debt, he no longer has an office and is the target of an ethics investigation that threatens to disbar him. But this has not stopped him from continuing…
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News Celebrities Meet To Discuss Jewish Future
A high-powered group of 20 Jewish intellectuals met behind closed doors near Washington late last month to discuss the future of the Jewish people — and the mood was not optimistic. Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, former Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky and Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler were among the select group of…
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News Sufi To Address ZOA Meeting
There is nothing surprising about the last name Schwartz appearing on the roster of speakers for the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, but Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is no ordinary Schwartz. The son of a Jewish father, Schwartz later became a Muslim and is now the director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. Next week, at…
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