Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Life Bishop Williamson in His Own Words
Richard Williamson, who recently had his excommunication from the Catholic Church revoked, denies the reality of the Holocaust. Here are a few of his controversial statements. I think that two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers. -*Richard Williamson, 2009 interview * A portion of…
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News Pope’s Embrace of Renegade Bishops Dooms Jewish-Catholic Summit
The most significant impending meeting between Jewish leaders and Pope Benedict XVI is being called off due to the Catholic Church’s recent decision to reconcile with four renegade ultra-conservative Catholics, including one who has a history of denying the Holocaust. Israel’s chief rabbinate sent a letter to the Vatican indefinitely postponing a March summit in…
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News Orthodox Rabbis Rally Around Rubashkin as He Sits in Jail
During past presidential transitions, when pardons were in the air, many Orthodox Jewish activists set their sights on securing a pardon for Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned since 1987 on charges of spying for Israel. This year, though, members of the Orthodox community had another jailed cause célèbre to focus on: Sholom Rubashkin. Rubashkin, former CEO of…
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Life Big Love’s Resident Kibbutznik
“Big Love,” which follows the trials and tribulations of a polygamous family in suburban Utah, is one of the most probing, unflinching takes on religion in America. But it took two whole seasons before we got a Jewish character on the show. The first appearance came in the first episode of the third season, which…
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News Revisionist: It’s Time To Quit Shoah Fight
One of the primary leaders in the fight to question and delegitimize the Holocaust has proclaimed that fight to be a lost cause, sparking a furious debate among his cohorts. Mark Weber, a telegenic Californian, has served for 15 years as director of the Institute for Historical Review, which was founded in the late 1970s…
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News How the Rubashkins Changed the Way Jews Eat in America
Shortly before the kosher meat company Agriprocessors declared bankruptcy this fall, Aaron Rubashkin, the 82-year-old owner of the company, stood under the fluorescent lights of his Brooklyn store and spoke about what it was like to watch the collapse of the company that he created in Boro Park and expanded first to Postville, Iowa, then…
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News Workers at Alle Kosher Meat Plant Reject Union in Contested Vote
Workers at one of the nation’s largest kosher meat producers have voted against joining a union, though the union that led the drive is contesting the vote and accusing the company of foul play. The November 13 vote at the Alle Processing factory in Queens came amid widespread scrutiny of labor conditions in the kosher…
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News Kosher Updates: A New Arrest and More
The troubles at what was once the nation’s largest kosher meat producer, Agriprocessors, have continued to beset the company six months after a massive immigration raid at its Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse and a few weeks after the company declared bankruptcy. In the midst of its efforts to stay alive in the wake of the bankruptcy…
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