Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Trying To See the World Through the Eyes of Terrorists
The American ambassador in Beirut urged Jessica Stern not to proceed with her mission, but that did not deter her. She made a phone call to her husband in Boston, telling him that if she did not call later that day, he should consider alerting the embassy about her disappearance. Then, she set off to…
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News Report Claims New York Times Columnist Took Swing at Critic
A night devoted to talking about peace took a violent turn, according to one man who says he was physically assaulted by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Manhattan lawyer Harvey Schwartz says that Friedman hit and shoved him as the men were talking after the Israel Policy Forum’s annual dinner late in the…
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News Middle-Class Job Woes Persist Despite Bright Economic News
Unemployed Jews were spilling out of the lecture hall at the Orthodox Union’s national office in downtown New York Tuesday morning. A total of 110 job seekers had signed up for the free employment workshop offered by the O.U., and another 45 had to be turned away for lack of space. The workshop took place…
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News Writing a New Chapter in a Tale of Jewish Discovery
Julie Sandorf and her husband Michael Weinberger gave little thought to Jewish rituals or observance as they raised their young daughter. Then one day, when she was 3 years old, their daughter came home from church nursery school and announced that she wanted to be “a Christian, not a Jewish.” If Sandorf’s ethnic anxiety upon…
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News Career Adviser Pushes New Paradigm for Job Seekers
As participants at the Orthodox Union workshop were filing out of the room, about 15 people flocked to the mysterious bald man in the back of the room. He proceeded to tell them all that he felt was wrong with what they had just heard. His name is Shlomo Gewirtz and he might be called…
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News Citing 1st Amendment, N.Y. Court Dismisses ‘Chained Wife’ Appeal
Reasserting the constitutional right of ecclesiastical tribunals to operate free of governmental oversight, a New York court has dismissed a lawsuit against several rabbis alleging defamation and bribery in the course of an Orthodox divorce proceeding. The case, which has received intense media coverage in recent years, was brought by Helen Chayie Sieger, a member…
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News Painting a Fuller Picture of Ruby, Killer of Kennedy’s Assassin
With the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death came the predictable wave of reflections on his presidency and zany theories on his assassination. At least one assassination aficionado, however, is working to discredit the many conspiratorial narratives that seek to include Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s assassin. Armed only…
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News ‘Rabbi Cool’ and Rock Opera Draw Stars, Upscale Spiritualists
Jewish grandmothers, aging hippies and Jerry Seinfeld all filed into the auditorium of Manhattan’s Asia Society last week for a $500-a-head benefit for CLAL, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Then the lights dimmed and a man with large hair took the stage, wearing tight black pants and a shimmering golden shirt unbuttoned…
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