Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Rapid Rise of Mega-donors Reshapes Communal World
If it had not been for Warren Buffett’s charitable gift of $43.5 billion last year, the world might have taken more notice of the year’s next three largest gifts — all of which were given by Jewish philanthropists. The two largest donations after Buffet were made by Herbert Sandler and Bernard Osher, co-founders of a…
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News New Foundations Set To Dwarf Big Givers
While individual donors hog much of the philanthropic limelight in the Jewish world, a new coterie of Jewish mega-foundations is taking shape that soon may be giving almost as much as all the largest individual donors combined. Research by the Forward indicates that five foundations are, or soon will be making, annual grants of more…
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Israel News The New New Republic
One of the most hands-on pro-Israel media personalities in America has sold his magazine to one of the most hands-on pro-Israel media personalities in Canada. Martin Peretz sold the last of his stake in The New Republic to CanWest, the Winnipeg-based media company owned primarily by Leonard Asper and his family. Peretz, who has been…
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News UCLA Rabbi Apologizes For Attacking Activist
What began as a campus dispute over Israel resulted in a four-year legal battle that came to an end only this month, after a top campus rabbi in Los Angeles issued a formal apology. “I am deeply sorry that I hit, kicked and scratched you and called you a liar on October 21, 2003,” Rabbi…
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Israel News Four Hits for Israel Baseball League
With its inaugural season set to start in June, the fledgling Israel Baseball League has tapped three former Major Leaguers to manage teams and, in a page straight from Hollywood, signed a 45-year-old American to take the field. The league announced the hiring of three managers: former New York Yankee Ron Blomberg, 58, who made…
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News Orthodox Slam Effort To Monitor Conditions at Kosher Factories
As rabbis of Conservative Judaism begin work on a new, ethically motivated food certification, they are coming under attack from a number of Orthodox kosher authorities. The Conservative movement decided last December to create a Tsedek Hekhsher, or justice certification, after finding substandard working conditions at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. The…
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News Jerusalem Shuts Diaspora Affairs Office
The Israeli government has shut down the office of the Minister of Diaspora Affairs, raising concerns that the government may be giving less attention to the already weakening bonds between Israel and the rest of the Jewish world. Last week, according to a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the contracts of the last two…
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News New Study Affirms Jewish Population Above 6 Million
A study that posits itself as the new authority on Jewish demographic data says that the American Jewish population is between 6 million and 6.4 million, and potentially as high as 7.5 million. The new figures are the latest and most powerful refutation of the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey, which found a Jewish population…
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