Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Aufbau Must Relocate or Close
For the Jewish immigrants who founded the German-language newspaper Aufbau in 1934, America represented the future and Germany the past. Things certainly have changed. Just days after the Jewish newspaper’s 70th-anniversary issue was published last week, editors said the paper’s financial situation in America had grown so tenuous that it faced the stark choice of…
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News For Tradition’s Sake: One Reform Temple Cleaves to Sunday Services
At the beginning of the week’s main service at the Chicago Sinai Congregation, Rabbi Michael Sternfield cheerily wished those present a “good Shabbes,” but immediately caught himself. It being Sunday, when Sinai’s central service takes place, Sternfield turned to a more appropriate greeting:. “I mean good morning,” the rabbi corrected himself. “I am programmed, aren’t…
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News Liberalism Gains at Election-Year Policy Forum
BOSTON — With the presidential election approaching, American Jewry’s main policy body shifted hard back to its liberal roots, pushing through several domestic-oriented resolutions, including a call for the repeal of the Bush administration’s most recent round of tax cuts. The resolution, which passed with only a smattering of dissenting votes at the annual plenum…
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Israel News Famed Burger Joint Hosts Rare Bar Mitzvah Bash
CHICAGO — In a subterranean lair beneath the streets here is a dimly lit bar called the Billy Goat Tavern, a place with a storied past and a reputation for diverse characters. But one thing it had never seen before this week was the hora. Last Saturday, though, guests danced in a circle while 13-year…
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News Dershowitz Backtracks After Causing Stir at Parley
BOSTON — Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz only showed up at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs plenum for about an hour-and-a-half, but during that time he managed to stir up about as much controversy as the other three days of the conference combined. Outside historic Faneuil Hall, where the JCPA convened to honor Dershowitz,…
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News Massachusetts Jews Stand Solidly Against Anti-Gay-Vows Initiative
The successful fight last week to defeat a state constitutional amendment in Massachusetts banning gay marriage received a vigorous boost from Jewish legislators and communal groups. All 14 Jewish legislators at Massachusetts’s constitutional convention last week voted against the proposed Travis Amendment, which would have outlawed same-sex marriages. The Jewish lawmakers rejected the measure even…
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News Grasping for God With Arms Outstretched
Most of the congregants who trickled in for Saturday services on a recent morning in Evanston, Ill., were wearing spandex. Warming up from the sub-freezing weather outside, they rolled out their blue plastic mats in preparation for the first prayer. When Rabbi Andrea London began the morning blessing, everyone assumed the lotus position, with backs…
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News Cries of Foul After Basketball Game At a Tony Private School Turns Ugly
A tempest has been swirling inside the delicate gilded teapot of New York high society after basketball fans of the elite Trinity School taunted a Jewish player for the opposing Dalton school with calls of “gefilte fish, gefilte fish,” and “hey, he fouled him… that’s not kosher!” One Dalton parent challenged the hecklers at the…
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