Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Iran Refugees Languish in Legal Limbo
A year ago, Jahangir Navidpour, a 58-year-old Jew from the Iranian town of Shiraz, arrived in Vienna, home to the processing center for Iranian refugees heading to America. During the eight months it took for his family of five to be cleared for arrival in the United States, they were stuck living in a tiny…
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News Hollinger Woes Casting a Pall Over Future of Neocon Papers
A convergence of unrelated financial scandals is threatening to sink the tiny but influential boat of Jewish-flavored conservative journalism. At the center of the controversy is Hollinger International, a media company that owns dozens of conservative newspapers, including the hawkish Jerusalem Post. An internal investigation into improper payments allegedly made to Hollinger’s majority owner and…
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News Rival Russian Jewish Leaders Lend Backing to Putin
Russia’s arrest of a Jewish oil magnate has drawn heavy criticism from abroad, but the feuding leaders of the country’s two major Jewish organizations are both voicing support for the government action. In a rare moment of agreement between bitter rivals, Berel Lazar, chief rabbi for the Chabad-Lubavitch-dominated Federation of Russian Jews, and Yevgeny Satanovsky,…
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News Political Pollster Grows Into His Jewish Identity
Republican pollster Frank Luntz has seen his fair share of loss and disappointment working on the political campaigns of unsuccessful presidential candidates such as Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot. But the work Luntz has done for the Jewish community during the past year and a half has introduced him to a new, double-edged sadness. Researching…
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News Ukraine Tycoon Creating a Stir With Purchase Of U.S. Media
Ukraine’s most prominent and controversial Jewish businessman, Vadim Rabinovich, said he has bought a “controlling stake” in America’s oldest Russian-language daily newspaper, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, and its sister radio station, Narodnya Volna. Rabinovich, the first overseas owner of NRS, holds a number of Ukrainian media properties, which are known for journalistic standards that are “far…
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News Bush Keeping Slots Open for Resettlement of Refugees
The Bush administration announced last week that it will leave the door open for the resettlement of as many as 70,000 refugees in the United States over the next year, allaying fears of refugee advocates that the resettlement program was on the brink of demise after years of declining admissions. Since the September 11 terrorist…
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News Russian Immigrants Struggle in Small German Towns
HAMELN, Germany — Sounds of hammering and sawing came from the back of the six-year-old Jewish community center in this Lower Saxony town. Three older men, all volunteers, were at work on a stage for the new prayer room. Surrounded by sawdust and pine planks, the men took a break to debate, in Russian, the…
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News Moms’ Plight Spurs Action By Agencies
Three years ago, Cathy Markowitz had it all together. A house in a Long Island suburb, an accountant husband and a steady day job at a doctor’s office that gave her plenty of time to spend with her three young sons. Then her husband had a serious stroke. In the weeks that followed, Markowitz said…
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