Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Right-wing Faithful Fight Against the Tide
If world events had not intruded, these past few weeks might have been good for the Zionist Organization of America, a leading critic of the Oslo peace process and Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. On Sunday, the ZOA’s annual dinner drew its largest crowd in recent history. The event came just one week after Congress…
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News Israel Offers Humanitarian Relief for Refugees in Darfur
The Israeli government is making its first contribution to alleviate the plight of refugees from the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. The Israeli Consul General in New York, Aryeh Mekel, announced on Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is joining with five American Jewish organizations to help establish a school at a…
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News Israelis Push Frontiers of Science With Breakthrough in Stem-cell Research
While American authorities have diverged over the proper tack to take on stem-cell research, Israeli scientists this week announced a pair of stunning advances in the field. On Sunday, a team from Hadassah University Medical Center went public with what they say is the first study in which rats with Parkinson’s disease experienced improvement after…
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News Agency Slow To Handle Holocaust Claims
In 1998, when an international agency was formed to help Holocaust survivors collect on their prewar insurance policies, Alex Moscovic thought he finally might be able to recover the policy his parents whispered about as the Nazis were marching into his native Hungary in 1944. Moscovic filed his claim in 2000 with the agency, known…
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News Kosher Corporation Releases a Cartoon ‘Passion’
Until this week, families made queasy by the violence in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” could take in Jesus’ flagellation and death in a kid-friendly cartoon version, “The Animated Passion Trilogy.” The cartoon is an odd spinoff from Gibson’s film, which offended many in the Jewish community. But even stranger is that the…
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News Media Watchdog Threatens To Sue Professor
The feud between a pro-Israel media watchdog and a University of Michigan professor is fueling claims of Jewish attempts to silence criticism of Jerusalem and academic misdeeds on the part of pro-Palestinian professors. The president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, Yigal Carmon, has threatened to file suit against Juan Cole, a professor of…
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News World Congress Embroiled in Fight Over Swiss Bank Account: Its Own
The president of the Swiss Jewish community was suspended from the European regional affiliate of the World Jewish Congress this week after he refused to drop his demand for a new audit of a controversial WJC bank account. The dispute over the account is the latest WJC drama to make headlines in Switzerland, where the…
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News Emigré Newspaper Finds Buyer
Eight months after the trans-Atlantic newspaper Aufbau put out what was thought to be its last issue, the German Jewish publication is coming back to life, now on the other side of the Atlantic. Aufbau was purchased by the Juedische Medien AG, the company that owns Switzerland’s independent Jewish newspaper, Tachles. The editors at the…
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