Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Groups in Budget Battle To Save Refugee Relief
With congressional inaction leading to thousands of elderly refugees being cut off from their only source of income, and thousands more facing a similar prospect, a handful of Jewish organizations have launched an emergency legislative campaign. Since late 2003, refugees have been facing the end of their Supplementary Security Income, or SSI benefits, because of…
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News UJC Exec Rebuffs Critical Study as Work of ‘Naysayers’
An ambitious study of the United Jewish Communities by two top academics, exploring the charitable giant’s initial stumbles and recommending course corrections, has won a dismissive response from the organization’s chief executive. The study, released February 4, is the product of nearly 90 interviews with founders and participants in the famously troubled organization, which was…
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News Columbia Students Say Firestorm Blurs Campus Reality
Even as Columbia University faces a torrent of allegations of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias, the Jewish students at the center of the controversy say their cause has been misunderstood. In a recent meeting with the Forward, several students involved in making and distributing the documentary film “Columbia Unbecoming,” which triggered the media firestorm engulfing the…
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News In Watershed, Israel Deems Land-use Rules of Zionist Icon ‘Discriminatory’
In a landmark decision, Israel’s attorney general ruled last week that one of the fundamental tenets upon which the Jewish state was built — acquiring and reserving land for Jews to live on — is discriminatory and should not continue with state assistance. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz was responding to a Supreme Court case involving…
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News Two National Organizations See Departures at the Top
As the battle over President Bush’s second term agenda heats up, two of the most important Jewish organizations dealing with domestic policy are losing top staff members who would have been responsible for formulating a response to the administration’s expected cuts in federal spending on social welfare programs. United Jewish Communities, the national roof body…
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Israel News Brooklyn-bred Hasid Takes Position of Power in Israel
JERUSALEM — While negotiations were under way to form Ariel Sharon’s new governing coalition earlier this month, most observers expected the worst infighting to come from hawks within Sharon’s own Likud Party. As it happened, the most damaging feud erupted not in the Likud but within the coalition’s junior partner, United Torah Judaism, a tiny…
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News Gaza Settlers Brace for Disengagement
ELEI SINAI, Gaza — If Israeli soldiers come to remove the Farhan family from their home here in northern Gaza, it will not be the first time the Farhans experience dislocation at the hands of their own government. The Farhans are among the 5,000 Jewish settlers who were made to leave their homes in the…
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News Abbas Is Willing To Use Force Against Hamas, Adviser Says
RAMALLAH — Although the new Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, is publicly committed to ending attacks on Israel through agreements with groups such as Hamas, the authority is prepared to use force unilaterally if talks fail, a top Abbas adviser told the Forward. “For those factions who either are not willing to reach an agreement…
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