Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Spotlight Now on Bronfman Lieutenant
With Edgar Bronfman resigning as president of the World Jewish Congress, his critics have now directed much of their ire at the organization’s secretary general, Stephen Herbits. Herbits was brought in by Bronfman to fix the organization, but shows no signs of leaving voluntarily with his patron. The WJC secretary general drew a fresh round…
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News Bronfman Resigns as WJC President
Edgar Bronfman resigned Monday as president of the World Jewish Congress after years of turmoil at the organization. Bronfman, heir to the Seagram liquor fortune, resigned at a meeting in New York of the WJC’s steering committee. Bronfman had been president of the organization since 1979. During his tenure, the organization led the Jewish community’s…
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News Push To Repeal Cold War Measure Splits Chabad
American policy toward the increasingly authoritarian regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignited a fierce quarrel inside one of the fastest-growing and most influential movements in Judaism, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Chabad officials in Russia and the United States have recently staked out opposing positions on a decades-old American law, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which restricted U.S.-Soviet…
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News Model Community In Russia Revolts Against Aid Agency
The tsarist capital of St. Petersburg has long been a model for the revival of Jewish life in Russia, but in recent weeks a growing number of Jewish leaders there have come forward to say that the community is being torn apart by the very American Jewish organization that helped build it up. The organization…
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News Matthew Bronfman Resigns From Bank Board
Matthew Bronfman, a candidate for the presidency of the scandal-plagued World Jewish Congress, resigned last week from the board of Israel Discount Bank’s New York branch. Bronfman’s April 13 resignation came after the bank commissioned a report to look at allegations of potential conflicts of interest in his work at the bank. While the report…
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News Billionaire Boychiks Battle for Media Empire
When Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate mogul and soon-to-be media magnate, was a junior counselor at a Jewish summer camp, he regularly transfixed his campers with tales of his family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Poland. The Zell family traveled through Russia and Japan, pretending to be tourists at the Bolshoi Ballet so as not to…
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News ‘Bell Curve’ Scribe Mulls Roots of Jews’ Brainpower
One of the most controversial and influential public intellectuals in American life is weighing in with a new theory on the roots of Jewish intelligence. Charles Murray, famous for “The Bell Curve,” his book on the racial basis of intelligence, has published an article in this month’s Commentary, titled “Jewish Genius.” In the essay, Murray…
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News 110 Years of News in the Forward
Since the Forward began sending out reporters 110 years ago, the paper has been on top of nearly every major news event. The Forward’s mission was political but its first commitment was to telling its readers what they needed to know and telling them straight. Here is a selection of seven particularly decisive stories of…
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