Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Claims Conference Focuses on Securing Funds for Home Health Care
Responding to a groundswell of requests from aging Jewish Holocaust survivors, the organization responsible for securing support for survivors is putting an increasing emphasis on winning funding for home health care. In the first step of this effort, last month the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany concluded its first agreement with the German…
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News Court Actions Highlight Lack Of Special Rep On Restitution
The last month has seen the first major spate of legal action on Holocaust-era issues since 2001, when the Bush administration downgraded the American government’s representation on restitution and reparations matters. To observers from almost every side of the debate, the recent wrangling in court has revealed the deep impact the absence of Stuart Eizenstat,…
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News Mending a Fractured Relationship Through Diplomacy
Stefan Schlueter’s effort to heal Germany’s wounded past extends even to the linguistic level. When speaking about Germans today, he carefully uses the phrases “non-Jewish Germans” and “Jewish Germans” to emphasize that both are a part of the German community. “It would give Hitler a small victory to think of Jews and Germans as separate…
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News Berg and Pearl Cast as Heroes Of Volunteerism
The similarities between the gruesome killing of Daniel Pearl and that of Nicholas Berg have been hard to avoid, with both Americans meeting their end at the hands of Islamic militants, on camera for the world to watch. Less noticed have been the striking parallels in the way that both men lived their lives. On…
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Israel News Hoop Dreams: Israeli High-scorer Shoots for the NBA
On Monday, Elad Inbar came one step closer to going where no Israeli has gone before: the National Basketball Association. At a practice facility in the industrial wastelands of northern New Jersey, Inbar had a tryout in front of the general manager and CEO of the New Jersey Nets, Rod Thorn — the same man…
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News Justice Dept. Takes Heat Over Survivors’ Lawsuit
A bipartisan group of 17 senators, including Hillary Clinton, a New York Democrat, and Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, came together last week to chastise the Department of Justice for its handling of the so-called “Gold Train” case. The Justice Department has fought at every turn against the federal lawsuit brought by Hungarian Holocaust survivors,…
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Culture Communal Bodies Split Over Federal Budget Talks
Two closely linked Jewish representative bodies have staked out opposing stances on the federal budget resolution adopted last week by the House of Representatives, reflecting what observers say is a growing tension between the two arms of the federated Jewish philanthropic system. The two organizations are United Jewish Communities, a national service agency representing the…
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News Media Moguls Bid for JPost As Israel’s Anglo Voice Is Put on Auction Block
When the May 20 deadline passed for bidders seeking to buy the Jerusalem Post, Israel’s most famous English-language newspaper faced a welter of suitors offering strikingly different visions of the future. A leading contender who has all but confirmed his entry into the secret auction — Canadian media mogul Leonard Asper — has a reputation…
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