Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Bankrupt Agriprocessors Slated for Sale
The troubled kosher meat company Agriprocessors is set to be sold to a new Jewish owner. Agriprocessors has been owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family, but it went bankrupt last fall after a massive immigration raid at the company’s Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse. The company’s bankruptcy trustee, Joseph Sarachek, recommended on June 23 that Agriprocessors be…
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News Posh Prison Parties Just the Latest Act for Satmar Power Broker
Long before he managed to organize a lavish bar mitzvah inside a New York City jail, Rabbi Leib Glanz developed a reputation for making things happen within New York’s ultra-Orthodox Satmar community. “He’s involved in any and every situation,” said Moshe Indig, a Satmar community leader. “You name it, he’s involved in it.” Those favors…
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Breaking News Orthodox Organization Defends Chaplain Accused of Favoring Jewish Inmates
The nation’s leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella organization is preparing to go to bat for a disgraced prison chaplain who is accused of giving favors to Jewish inmates. Agudath Israel of America has drafted a letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressing support for Rabbi Leib Glanz, a rabbi affiliated with the Satmar Hasidic movement who…
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News Long Strike at Chicago Hotel Pits Jew Against Jew
Nearly six years after the housekeepers and dishwashers at the Congress Plaza Hotel first went on strike, the enormous hotel here on Chicago’s lakefront shows the marks of being a battle zone in America’s labor wars. Outside, the workers who went on strike in 2003 have kept up a nearly constant picket line in front…
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News Popular Rabbi’s Comments on Treatment of Arabs Show a Different Side of Chabad
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad. But Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when…
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News Orthodox, and Sticking With the Union
Recent controversies about labor issues in the Jewish community have often become battles between non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews. At the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, this paradigm seems to hold, with rabbis from more liberal denominations protesting the Orthodox Jewish owners of the hotel. But in Chicago, the standard mold is broken by Rabbi Asher…
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News Which Side Are We On? Jews Lead Fight For and Against Key Labor Bill
Since retiring from his position as CEO of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus has become one of this country’s most vocal opponents of organized labor, criticizing unions in the media and on Capitol Hill. That is a long way from Marcus’s beginnings in a Newark, N.J., tenement some 80 years ago. Marcus’s parents were immigrants from…
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News Justices Strike Down Postville Tactic
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously struck down a legal tool that was central to the prosecution of immigrant workers who were arrested at the Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Iowa last May. After the raid at the kosher plant, nearly 300 illegal workers were charged with aggravated identity theft, which came with a minimum two-year prison…
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