Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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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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News Wave of Firings Hits Federation Network
Seven top officials have been fired from United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations, the Forward has learned. Insiders say the dismissals are part of a dramatic reorientation taking place under the organization’s recently installed president and chief executive officer, Howard Rieger. Most of the layoffs involve two departments central…
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News Tree Charity Embroiled In New Flap Over Funds
An escalating dispute between the Jewish National Fund in Israel and its American-based fund-raising arm is raising questions about the way the American organization, one of the most prominent names in American philanthropy, is spending its money. The fight revolves around an unpublicized effort by the Jewish National Fund in America to fund other environmental…
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News Students, Outsiders Spar at Columbia Conference
A conference at Columbia University designed to highlight alleged intimidation by Arab professors took an unexpected turn March 6 when three pro-Israel students took to the stage to criticize anti-Palestinian and anti-Islamic statements by previous speakers. “I have to take serious issue with many of the statements made here today,” said Ariel Beery, one of…
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News Group’s Pact With Putin Friends Raises Eyebrows
The American Jewish Congress, a group known for its historic role at the cutting edge of liberal Jewish activism, signed a strategic agreement this week with a Russian Jewish organization that has close ties to the Kremlin and that is dominated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The agreement, pledging to fight “religious and ethnic bigotry,”…
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News Critic of Gaza Plan Tapped To Head Media Campaign
A vocal critic of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan has been tapped by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to spearhead a new program aimed at selling Jerusalem’s side of the story to foreign journalists in the region. The Philadelphia federation gave $100,000 to launch the new Jerusalem office of The Israel Project — an organization…
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News Israeli Newspaper Brawl Moving to the Internet
TEL AVIV — In a bid to supplant the two major English-language newspapers produced in Israel, Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s most influential and widely read newspaper, this week unveiled Ynetnews.com, its long-awaited English-language Web site. The centrist Yedioth is one of the three major Hebrew-language newspapers in Israel, along with Ma’ariv, a right-leaning tabloid, and Ha’aretz,…
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