Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News WJC Sues Whistleblower for Defamation
Following the release of a stinging government report on financial mismanagement at the World Jewish Congress, the organization struck back with a $6 million defamation lawsuit against the whistleblower behind the investigation. Now the hardball maneuver is causing a new set of headaches for the group, with its Australian affiliate threatening to quit the organization….
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News Wiesenthal Center Presses Ahead With Israel Museum Over Mounting Objections
Despite growing Muslim and Jewish objections, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is moving ahead with the construction of a museum on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. The Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based institution, is building its new Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land that was historically used by Muslims as a cemetery…
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News Shoah Suit Puts Scrutiny On Lauder’s Art Collection
When the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese art collector who perished in the Dachau concentration camp, began trying to track down their ancestor’s collection of Egon Schiele paintings, they hit what they thought was a stroke of luck: At least two of the pieces seemed to have ended up in collections associated with cosmetics…
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Israel News Skating Toward Olympic Gold
Mathieu Schneider, one of the few Jewish hockey players in the National Hockey League, is always on the lookout for other Jewish skaters. When he was trying out for the American Olympic ice hockey team in 2002, he sought out Jeff Halpern, captain of the Washington Capitals — and a fellow Jew. Though neither ended…
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News N.Y. Probe of Charity Cites Mismanagement
A long-awaited report from the New York State Attorney General’s Office outlines serious financial mismanagement at the World Jewish Congress, including hundreds of thousands dollars of improper payments and loans to its former chairman and secretary-general, Rabbi Israel Singer. The report constitutes an agreement, signed by representatives of the WJC and the Attorney General’s Office…
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News WJC Pushes Reform Efforts
The World Jewish Congress, beset by critics and currently under New York State investigation over its finances, made a big push toward reforming itself this week — but the effort stumbled on its first steps out of the gates. The WJC’s steering committee approved a series of organizational reforms at a January 19 meeting. Among…
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News Interest in Zionist Parley Slides in U.S.
The world’s only global Jewish elections are approaching fast, but from the early tallies it appears that the word has not spread far. Voter registration for the World Zionist Congress — open to any Jew over 18 — closes February 15 in America. Thus far, fewer than 70,000 Americans have registered, down from 120,000 registrants…
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News WJC Fights Publication Of Articles On Its Woes
The World Jewish Congress is fighting to block publication in Switzerland of a series of magazine articles that reportedly will contain damaging new allegations about the organization’s management and handling of funds. An Israeli-born Swiss journalist, Daniel Ganzfried, is scheduled to publish a series of articles in the Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche, detailing what he calls…
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