Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Federations Draft ‘Stop Doing’ List
CLEVELAND — There was a “Prime Minister’s Dinner” Sunday night, but no prime minister. There was a “Breakfast With the Legend” scheduled for Monday, but the legend — Israel’s Shimon Peres — didn’t show up. It was a four-day gathering of the American Jewish community’s top organizers and fund raisers, but the iconic moment might…
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News PR Group Clashes With Jerusalem On Image of Israel
The Israeli government and a public relations organization that is working to improve Israel’s image could be headed for a showdown at next week’s gathering of Jewish federation leaders in Cleveland. Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, is set to participate in a panel discussion November 16 with Gideon Meir, the…
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Israel News Pragmatic Approach to Politics Bears ‘Rosey’ Results
Three weeks before the election, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress, Jack Rosen, sat down for dinner with President Bush at a private residence in Washington. They chatted about Israel and Iran, but the conversation, like the relationship between the two men, soon went beyond politics. Eventually they were talking baseball. It was an…
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News Donors Mobilize Resources To Ease Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis
When Dora Apsan Sorell, 83, saw a newscast in August about the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, it conjured up horrific memories of her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Earlier that same day, Sorell, a retired doctor, had received a reparations check for the slave labor she did during the war. With the images of…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
During the post-election scramble in 2000, the entire election seemed to hinge on how Jews voted — or at least punched out the chads on their butterfly ballots — in three South Florida counties, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade, which are thought to contain about a half-million Jews. Returning to the Sunshine State for this…
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News Voters Turn Nasty As Passions Rage Over Election
A great deal of ink has been spilled over whether a substantial number of Jews will move to the Republican column in this election. But while the recent studies don’t show any major shifts, there are at least some new phenomena among Jewish voters in this year’s election: spitting, vandalizing and making obscene gestures. As…
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Culture Emigrés Are Forming Decidedly Secular Identities; The Ancestral Faith, With a Side of Salami
This is the final installment in a three-part series on the challenges faced in the United States by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. A half an hour before a late-season minor league baseball game at Keyspan Park, in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, a series of Russian performers took the field to dance…
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News Kerry Rails Against Bush on Holocaust Restitution
Stepping up his bid for Jewish votes in Florida, Senator John Kerry accused the Bush administration Monday of “dragging its feet” on the contentious Hungarian Gold Train case, a Holocaust restitution suit against America’s government that is moving through federal court in Miami. Hungarian Holocaust survivors brought the class-action case in 2001. They are seeking…
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