Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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Breaking News Meat Company’s P.R. Firm Acknowledges Responsibility of ‘Senior Staff Member’ in Online Deception
This article is a follow-up to this report that appears in this week’s print edition of the Forward. The CEO of a major New York public relations firm publicly admitted that his company posted fraudulent comments on the Internet about a client, a major kosher slaughterhouse. Over the course of the past week, evidence has…
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News Flacks for Agriprocessors Admit Online Impersonation of Meat Company’s Critics
Read an update to this article here. A prominent New York public relations firm has privately acknowledged making fraudulent postings on the Internet about one of its clients, a kosher meat company. An employee at the firm, 5WPR, made the admission to the operator of the blog FailedMessiah.com, Shmarya Rosenberg, during a phone call, according…
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Breaking News Flacks for Kosher Slaughterhouse Accused of Impersonating Company’s Critics Online
See an updated version of this story here. A New York public relations firm representing an embattled kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of making fraudulent postings on the Internet on behalf of its client. The postings in question were made on FailedMessiah.com, a blog that has written extensively about Agriprocessors, operator of the country’s largest…
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News Chief Rabbis Repeat Promise To End Slaughter Method
After an article in the Forward detailed a controversial kosher slaughtering method, the Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has repeated an earlier promise to do away with it. A spokesman for the Chief Rabbinate told The Jerusalem Post this week that “we are doing everything to improve” the process known as “shackle and hoist” — a practice…
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News Widespread Slaughter Method Scrutinized for Alleged Cruelty
Over the past few decades, kosher meat producers have learned what many others in the industry know: The broad expanses of rural Argentina and Uruguay have everything needed to make great beef, with a stable climate and seemingly endless pastures for grazing. The labor is cheap, and the open pastures on which the cows are…
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News As Dubai Heats Up, Is Israel Frozen Out?
There are many factors pointing to Dubai’s emergence as a new Middle Eastern economic hub, but one particularly revealing item is the number of foreign visitors patronizing the city’s hotels. Since 2001, the number of Americans staying at this Persian Gulf port city’s hotels has nearly quadrupled, while Iranian visitors have doubled and Sudanese travelers…
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News Kosher Activists Strive To Slaughter With a Conscience
After 18 months of planning, New York’s new kosher meat cooperative slaughtered its first animals this week, just in time for Thanksgiving. It took the founder of Kosher Conscience, Simon Feil, many months to find a shochet, or Jewish ritual slaughterer, who could do the job, and then Feil needed to find a flock of…
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News Student Arrests In Russia Ignite Charged Chabad Battle
The arrest of 13 American yeshiva students in Russia last week has sparked a vigorous war of words within Russia’s most powerful Jewish organization. The students, all said to be between the ages of 18 and 22, were arrested last Friday in the provincial city of Rostov, roughly 1,000 miles south of Moscow, and charged…
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