Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News As Expenses Rise, Primary Voters Focus on Health Care
Shortly before he went off to vote in the Missouri Democratic primary on February 3, 68-year old Carl Moskowitz learned that the premium for his retiree health plan was doubling to $250 a month. Suddenly the issue of health care became integral as he listened to the candidates present their case. “I hadn’t thought about…
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News State Budget Crunches Turning Up Pain for Agencies
With state after state releasing dismal budget projections for the coming fiscal year, Jewish social service providers are bracing for cutbacks and further economic hardships. State governments provide anywhere from 10% to 60% of the funding to Jewish agencies nationwide that care for the most vulnerable segments of the population, including nursing homes, employment services,…
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News Jewish Poverty Deepens in New York City
Both the depth and distribution of Jewish poverty in New York City has increased during the past decade, according to a new study. The study found that nearly 60% of Jews living in Brooklyn’s heavily ultra-Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood live in poverty. More surprising to some observers is the finding that the number of poor has…
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News Taiwan Entertains Communal Leaders in Bid for Allies
When five Jewish communal leaders returned last week from their all-expenses-paid five-day trip to Taiwan, they were exhausted from the 24-hour flight but laden with exotic gifts. At one meeting with high-ranking Taiwanese officials, the delegates received tea-cups, at another colorful ties were distributed. “The whole time I was thinking: Hello, am I allowed to…
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News In the Company of Men ManKind’s ‘New Warriors’ Embrace Nature, Each Other, ‘Sacred Masculinity’
B y the hearth of a crackling fireplace at the Deer Park Church Camp in rural Pennsylvania, Josh Shaneson was welcomed into a brotherhood of men, for the second time. Shaneson, 19, had been inducted into manhood once before, as his yarmulke and ritual fringes indicated. But unlike his bar mitzvah, at this initiation he…
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News Rabbi’s Trial Draws Protest
The trial of an Israeli rabbi who attempted to physically block the demolition of two Palestinian houses is drawing increasingly vocal protest in the United States. In the boldest act of protest yet, Rabbi Arthur Waskow stood up in the middle of an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. at the Israeli embassy in Washington…
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Culture Catholic Headmaster Helps Jewish Academy Prosper
When Adam Holden, 38, took over as the headmaster at the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy — the only Jewish day school in the Kansas City metropolitan area — he never was sure when he met Orthodox women and girls whether he should shake their hands. This uncertainty makes sense, given that the British-born Holden is…
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News Communal Security Lax, Terror Experts, Leaders Warn at a N.Y. Meeting
In an unprecedented public discussion last week, Jewish organizational leaders and counter-terrorism experts declared that the American Jewish community has not prepared adequately to protect itself from terrorist attacks. Among those voicing concern at the January 8 briefing, which drew 65 participants from 35 organizations, were Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of…
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