Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
-
News Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Begin To Question Their Own Insularity
A “wake-up call” is how a number of ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders are describing the recent arrest of several New York-area rabbis on federal money laundering charges. The clearest indication of the newly awakened state came at a public symposium on business ethics held in the middle of ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn just a few days after the…
-
News Historic Union Torn Apart in Messy Divorce
The offices of union boss Bruce Raynor were, until recently, a physical testament to the Jewish labor movement’s enduring power. Raynor, president of the historically Jewish garment unions, worked from an executive suite in Manhattan’s garment district, in a storied building that had been purchased with the dues of countless seamstresses and furriers and milliners…
-
Life Agriprocessors: Execs Await Trial, Workers Stage a Play
An Iowa judge recently postponed one of the trials for top executives at the Agriprocessors kosher meat company. The executives were charged with nearly 10,000 separate child labor violations after the company was the subject of a massive immigration raid last May. This postponement means that the full story of the underage workers arrested during…
-
News Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
Novelist and playwright Franz Molnar’s life was always high on drama. He wrote works that were turned into Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite “Carousel.” In his personal life, Molnar fled Hungary to escape the Nazis and lived the high life in New York City until his death in 1952….
-
News Judge: Kosher Company Illegally Coerced Workers Before Union Election
A company that recently became the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, Alle Processing, was found by the National Labor Relations Board to have illegally intimidated its employees before a union election last fall. Raymond Green, a judge with the government’s labor board, found that the Queens-based company had violated labor law on…
-
Life Russian-American Lawyer, Imprisoned in Belarus, Pardoned
A Russian-born Jewish lawyer who had been sitting in a prison hospital in Belarus was released from a penal colony yesterday after a lengthy guessing game about his fate and the reasons for his arrest. Emanuel Zeltser, who moved to America during the Soviet Jewry movement, had been sentenced to three years in prison last…
-
Life This Week in the World of Kosher
What goes into making food kosher? The debate over this question has recently raged in America after the poor working conditions at the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse were exposed. The new Magen Tzedek certification has proposed that kosher food follow certain labor and environmental standards, but many Orthodox rabbis have disputed whether kosher certification can encompass…
-
Life Jewish Labor Leader Comes Out, Promotes Gay Marriage Bill
Just in time for New York’s gay pride events, the president of the Jewish Labor Committee, Stuart Appelbaum, announced publicly that he is gay. Appelbaum is thought to be the first president of a major international union to come out. Appelbaum is the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents 100,000…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
- 2
Opinion Jews are worried about Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why they shouldn’t be
- 3
Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
- 4
News Many U.S. synagogues display the Israeli flag on their bimahs. After the hostages were released, one NYC shul decided to move theirs.
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Vance downplays ‘little skirmishes’ as Israel bombs in Gaza and Hamas fails to return hostages
-
Fast Forward Rabbis Angela Buchdahl and Elliot Cosgrove show the split in the pulpit over political endorsements
-
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson hosts Nick Fuentes for a friendly conversation about ‘these Zionist Jews’
-
Fast Forward NY man who attacked Jews at 3 pro-Palestinian rallies sentenced to 17 months in prison
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
