Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Report Reignites Campus Controversy at Columbia
A report aimed at healing tensions over the Middle East has ended up fueling a new round of controversy at Columbia University, especially over the school’s early release of the document to The New York Times. The report — released to The Times March 30 and to the public a day later — came in…
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News U.S., European Leaders Feud
BALTIMORE — Transatlantic tensions spilled over at an intimate gathering of Jewish philanthropists this week, when a British Jewish communal leader accused his American counterparts of being “almost imperialistic” and of exaggerating the extent of antisemitism in Europe. Tony Lerman, chief executive of the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation, one of Britain’s largest Jewish philanthropies, voiced his…
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News Bush Democracy Guru Takes Hits Over Jerusalem Deal
On the cover of the latest issue of Pat Buchanan’s magazine, The American Conservative, the face of Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky peers out from what appears to be a vintage wanted poster. “Who Is This Man?” the headline screams. “Why Are His Ideas Guiding U.S. Policy?” The dramatic cover and searing critique inside represented…
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News Conservative ‘Academic Bill of Rights’ Picks Up Steam
Urged on by conservative provocateur David Horowitz, lawmakers in several states are pushing legislation requiring unprecedented government oversight of teaching on college campuses. In Florida last week, a key legislative committee approved the so-called “Academic Bill of Rights” in an 8-2 vote. The decision came after the bill’s Republican sponsor inveighed against “leftist totalitarianism” among…
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News Israel Studies Gain on Campus as Disputes Grow
Even as disputes over the Middle East roil Columbia University, the school is announcing the establishment of its first chair in Israel studies. A search committee will meet for the first time this week to begin seeking a professor to fill the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi chair in Israel and Jewish studies, named after the elder…
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News Watchdogs: Zionist Charity Shortchanging Programs
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs. In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development…
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News L.A. Gets a Touch Of (Yiddish) Class
When students show up at the New Community Jewish High School, in West Hills, Calif., next fall, they’ll receive more than the usual lab equipment and volumes of Shakespeare. They’ll be given Yiddish textbooks. Thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, the nondenominational high school will begin offering Yiddish as part of its curriculum, as…
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News Jewish Officials Profess Shock Over Report on Zionist Body
Embarrassed leaders of American Jewish organizations were absorbing the news this week that an international body under their control was at the center of a tangled Israeli scheme, detailed in a bombshell government report, to build illegal settlement outposts in violation of Israeli law, policy and international commitments. The international body, the World Zionist Organization,…
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