Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Israel News Defense Lawyer Helps Hip-Hop Artists Beat Their Raps
When Orthodox philanthropist Charles Kushner was arrested last month in connection with his political fund raising, he quickly retained a lawyer from within his own world of high-powered Orthodox philanthropists: Ben Brafman. Brafman has become well known in the Jewish community for his yearly stint emceeing a New York fund-raising event benefiting settlers in Hebron…
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News Chess Master Pawned Identity for Hatred
Years before Bobby Fischer became an international chess star, and decades before he was arrested last week in a Tokyo airport, Arnold Denker knew him as an insecure boy with serious anxieties about his ethnic background. A former American chess champion who served as a surrogate father of sorts to the fatherless Fischer, Denker told…
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News Netanyahu Seen Angling To Control Shoah Funds
As its annual board meeting approaches next week, the main international Jewish body charged with negotiating and distributing Holocaust reparations, known as the Claims Conference, has all the appearances of an organization under siege. The conference, which oversees assets totaling some $800 million, is being accused of giving insufficient attention to the voices of the…
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News Israel Moves On Holocaust-Era Assets
Just before the Nazis invaded Poland, Maurycy Moses Tempelhof, a resident of Lodz, bought about 1.25 acres of land just north of Haifa in what was then British-run Palestine. Tempelhof, his wife and two of his children died during the war, but one daughter, Isabelle, survived him. In search of her father’s property, Isabelle went…
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News Joining the Battle To Capture the Hearts of Young Jews
When Hillel’s newly minted executive, Kinney Zalesne, was in college, the Hillel on her campus at Yale held little appeal for her. For four years, she maintained a skeptical distance from the whole institution. “To me, Hillel was for people who were only socially comfortable with other Jews and whose cultural interests were mainly Jewish,”…
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News Suit Links Arab Bank, Terrorists
A lawsuit filed last Friday in Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court alleges that the Arab Bank, a leading Jordanian institution with deep commercial ties in this country, has been using its New York branch to help channel funds to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. The suit, brought by the families of six Americans injured or…
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News Top American Charity Embroiled in Debate Over Gaza
America’s central network of Jewish charities has become embroiled in the ideological debate over Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan after the Israeli prime minister asked United Jewish Communities’ biggest beneficiary, the Jewish Agency for Israel, to help relocate settlers evacuated from Gaza. With key backing from American delegates, the Jewish Agency’s board of governors voted last…
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News Judge’s Memo Displays Heat Of the Debate On Restitution
In a sign of the growing personal and emotional dimensions of the Swiss bank settlement, the federal judge overseeing the case, Edward Korman, fired off an unexpected attack at a prominent lawyer who has had little to do with the case, and who, even the judge called a “latecomer to the proceedings.” Korman filed a…
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