Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Pep Squad Prayers Bring Debate Over Church-State to Gridiron
As the University of Georgia prepares for the first football game of the season this Saturday, it has been the composition of the cheerleading squad rather than the starting quarterback that has generated the most controversy on campus. Georgia’s head cheerleading coach, Marilou Braswell, was fired August 23, months after the public university reprimanded her…
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News Orderly Protest Lacks Anti-Israel Vitriol
The massive protest against the Republican National Convention in New York on Sunday made for big surprises of the quietest kind: The media prepped the city for chaos and violence that never materialized. Jewish groups taking part in the demonstration were braced for additional tensions, but these, too, were largely absent at the end of…
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Culture Hamptons Host Parties for Peace
Like any good Hamptons host, banking heir Ivan Wilzig kept the guests at his July bash awaiting his arrival in proper Jay Gatsby style. The guests at the Wilzig Castle in Water Mill on Long Island, N.Y., mingling among Arabian tents and animal skin carpets, curiously examined the multicolored peace medallions being handed out by…
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News UJC Faces Questions As Rieger Takes Helm
When Howard Rieger becomes president of United Jewish Communities on September 1, he will take the reins of an organization confronting defining questions about its role as the coordinating body for 155 North American Jewish federations. After three years in which giving to the federation’s annual campaign has declined, UJC has struggled with its budgetary…
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News Comic Pushes Limits in Antisemitic Sing-along
On his hit HBO television series, “Da Ali G Show,” British Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is after laughs, but in the process he is creating a new form of sociological experiment. Each week, under the guise of three different fictitious personas, Baron Cohen is shown interviewing unsuspecting Americans to elicit outrageous and politically incorrect…
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News Terror Threat Against Synagogue Was False Alarm
With federal and city officials racing to respond to warnings of new terrorist strikes against the United States, the media appears to have set off a frightening false alarm about an alleged threat to a small Manhattan synagogue. Time magazine reported Monday that the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side was “singled…
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News Four Top Leaders Of Jewish Agency Seeking To Depart
Four of the top professionals at the Jewish Agency for Israel recently have announced their plans to leave the agency amid talk of growing tensions between the top professionals and the political leadership of the massive, quasi-governmental Israeli social-service agency. Leading the list of departures is the agency’s top professional, Director General Giora Romm, who…
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News Restitution Battle Shifts To Stalled Polish Front
Peter Koppenheim, 73, has been unsuccessfully pushing the Polish government since 1990 to return his family’s property in the center of Wroclaw, most of which was confiscated by the Germans during World War II and then nationalized under Poland’s Communist government. Recently, Rudi Pawelka, another former resident of Wroclaw — or Breslau, as the city…
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