Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Culture Gridiron Goliath Breaks Fast With Big Game, Nimble Timing
The sunset that brought Yom Kippur to an end came in the midst of a University of Wisconsin football game in front of 82,179 fans in which Matt Bernstein led his team to victory over Penn State by running 123 yards. Bernstein decided to play on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, but he…
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News Putin’s Terror Crackdown Puts Activists in a Quandary
For Jewish communal leaders who came of age during the fight for the freedom of Soviet Jewry but who have now shifted their focus to the fight against Islamic terrorism, events in Russia last week presented a special dilemma. After the hostage siege in the Russian town of Beslan, the Jewish community in the United…
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News Financial Disputes Stir Lithuanian Feud
The lone synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, sat locked this Rosh Hashanah as a result of a heightening local dispute that is threatening to drag two global Jewish organizations into a confrontation. Members of Lithuania’s Chabad-Lubavitch community have come to blows with the government-recognized Jewish Community of Lithuania, which is partially funded by the American Jewish…
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News In Alaska, a Real-life ‘Northern Exposure’
In this central Alaskan city 10 miles north of a town called North Pole and nearly 400 miles from the nearest rabbi, it now appears that Jewish men will occupy two of the five local seats in the state legislature. Last month, Jay Ramras won his hotly contested Republican primary for a seat in Alaska’s…
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News Merger of Communal Groups Yields Disappointment
The merger that created the United Jewish Communities in 1999 has been a disappointment to almost everyone involved, according to the authors of the first detailed study of the process, which is set to appear in the coming months. The report, which is being compiled by two professors at Hebrew Union College, looks at what…
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News JPosters Stung by Hollinger Woes
When a report about the “corporate kleptocracy” at the publishing company Hollinger International was released last week, it carried a special sting for employees at the Hollinger-owned Jerusalem Post, who have endured a series of extreme budgetary cutbacks during the past decade. The report, written by a special committee of Hollinger’s board, alleges that Hollinger…
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News Brothers Bond in Suburban Angst
Josh and Zach Braff are all grown up and living on the opposite side of the country from their childhood home in South Orange, N.J. But together the brothers have opened a vast panorama onto the experience of being young in the spiritual wilds of northern New Jersey. Zach Braff’s recently released first movie, “Garden…
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News New Editor Appointed at Jerusalem Post
David Horowitz, currently the editor of The Jerusalem Report, will be taking over the reins of the Jerusalem Post from the current editor-in-chief, Bret Stephens, on October 1. Stephens, who has led the paper since 2002, will go back to the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. After months of bad news at the…
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