Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Israel News Transforming Tragedies Into Memorable Memorials
One of the defining characteristics of Michael Arad’s winning design for the World Trade Center memorial is the empty space in the concave footprints of the twin towers, symbols used to conjure up memories of what was destroyed and cannot be replaced. The 34-year-old Israeli’s concept is reminiscent of two other recent memorials, both designed…
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News Law as Social Action: A Life in Advocacy Recalling Five Jewish Justices
In 1945 Will Maslow set out to defend the lives of Jews across America with something no one had ever considered a weapon: a law degree. Until that point, the American Jewish community had attempted to fight antisemitism and prejudice largely through “brotherhood meetings” and other quiet strategies aimed at conciliating and persuading the Christian…
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News Neocon Pair Outlines a Strategy To ‘End Evil’
Two of Washington’s most famed neoconservatives — David Frum and Richard Perle — have issued a stinging critique of America’s fight against terrorism and are urging more aggressive action. In their new book, “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror” (Random House), Frum and Perle call for universal biometric fingerprinting, immediate…
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News Israelis Help Iran Victims Despite Rebuff
Israel’s president is calling on Israeli citizens to find ways of donating to Iranian relief indirectly through international humanitarian organizations, despite Iran’s rejection of aid from the Jewish state. “I am sorry about the decision of the rulers of Iran to reject the humanitarian good will of the citizens of Israel,” said the Iranian-born Moshe…
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News Embattled Academic Tony Judt Defends Call for Binational State
Tony Judt is a scholar who was until recently best known for his writings on European history. But then, in a 2,900-word essay in the October 23 edition of The New York Review of Books, Judt dropped the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear bomb on Zionism, calling for the dismantling of Israel as a Jewish…
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News As Needs Rise, Few Receive Emergency Food Assistance
Holocaust survivor Yankel Teytelman left behind the hardships of Ukraine only to find poverty in Brooklyn. When 73-year-old Teytelman and his wife, Vera, immigrated to America in late 2000 they quickly found themselves burdened with $650 in monthly rent, and only $500 in federal aid to cover all their expenses. The Teytelmans would seem to…
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News On a Mission, From Hospital Hallways to Capitol Hill
At 79 years old, and a little over 5 feet tall, Myra Rosenbloom does not look like someone fighting the health-care establishment. But since her husband died 11 years ago, she has been on a divine mission to do just that. Jack Rosenbloom passed away in the critical care unit of a hospital where no…
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News Poll: Support for Israel is Strong
By a two-to-one margin, 62% to 31%, Americans believe their government should back Israel even if it leads to an increased probability of terrorist attacks against this country, according to a new survey of American attitudes toward the Middle East sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. The poll, conducted from December 1- 4, shows strong levels…
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