Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Orthodox Stronghold Eyed in N.J. Bias Probes
LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Officials in this multi-ethnic town of 66,000 have been under investigation on several fronts for allegedly discriminating against racial minorities and favoring the growing ultra-Orthodox population. The New Jersey attorney general’s office is currently investigating the Lakewood police department’s handling of a case in which a group of Orthodox men assaulted…
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News Animal-rights Expert Endorses Kosher Plant
A leading expert on the humane treatment of animals is giving a stamp of approval to the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse after previously criticizing the plant. Temple Grandin, an animal science professor, issued her endorsement last week, after visiting the AgriProcessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. The plant, owned and run by Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, has been…
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News In Iowa, Rabbi Opens Home for Troubled Jewish Boys
CLAYTON COUNTY, Iowa — In a small Mississippi River town like Guttenberg, breaking news events are a rarity, so reporter M.J. Smith has been drawn to what she calls “faith in action stories.” One of her recent columns in the Guttenberg Press (which did not produce the Bible, but is 110 years old) was about…
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News Katsav Hosts Conservative Amid ‘Rabbi’ Feud
Even as Israeli President Moshe Katsav kept up his public feud with the leader of Reform Judaism, he hosted a top leader of the Conservative synagogue movement in America. During his recent trip to Israel, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, refused to meet with Katsav at his official residence. Yoffie…
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News Titans Clashed in Battle for Newspaper
During one particularly bruising round of negotiations over the future of The Jerusalem Post, Israeli businessman Eli Azur paid a 3 a.m. visit to the hotel room of Canadian newspaper magnate Leonard Asper. According to just-released court papers, that night in January 2005 Azur was hoping to rescue his joint bid for the Post with…
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News Immigration Fight Splits Locals in Iowa Town
POSTVILLE, Iowa — This rural town’s reservoir of neighborly good will has been drained in recent weeks by an increasingly personal debate about the immigrants lining up for work at the local slaughterhouse — the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. At a packed town council meeting June 12, seven local clergy members, including a rabbi,…
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News WJC Sees Opposition Grow Over Lawsuit
After weathering an investigation by the New York attorney general’s office, the World Jewish Congress soon may confront a political campaign led by a former British Member of Parliament. The ex-parliament member and current Jewish activist, Eric Moonman, told the Forward he will begin organizing a campaign against the WJC — drawing together American and…
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News In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher ‘Jungle’ Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay
POSTVILLE, Iowa — The animals slaughtered here at the nation’s largest kosher meat packing plant have been the object of nationwide sympathy since an animal rights group released videos from the kill floor in December 2004. But a tour of the mobile homes and cramped apartments just outside town, where AgriProcessors’ immigrant workers live, quickly…
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