Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Telecom Mogul Airs New Station As Right’s Polite Answer to NPR
NEWARK, N.J. — In an era of talk radio defined by the loudest, most outrageous voices, businessman-philanthropist Howard Jonas is betting on the notion that there is a space on the airwaves for a more thoughtful approach to conservative ideas. Jonas, chairman and founder of IDT Corporation, unveiled his vision for a more polite brand…
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News Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist
From his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in what might be called the intellectual center of Jewish America, Michael Santomauro sends out a daily e-mail digest of what are, for his neighborhood, some unusual views on Judaism. Among them: questions on the Holocaust’s veracity, excoriation of every aspect of Israel’s behavior and questions on…
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Israel News Finding Common Ground in the Mideast: The Desert
There are not many high-up posts in Jewish organizations that involve cheerful meetings with diplomats from Arab nations, but Joseph Hess has found the exception. Hess is the representative of the Jewish National Fund on the board of the International Arid Lands Consortium, and in his job he hobnobs with Jordanian and Egyptian leaders on…
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Culture After 25 Years, Soviet Emigrés Still Strangers
This is the first in a three-part series on the challenges faced in America by Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Her freshly painted nails and carefully coiffed hair give Maria Abramov the air of a women who has things in order. Sitting in the clean back room of her…
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News Boston Day Schools Get Anonymous $45 Million Gift
A group of anonymous donors has given $45 million to support Jewish day schools in Boston, the largest one-time donation ever made to the city’s Jewish community. The philanthropic gift comes after a decade of booming interest in Jewish day schools, both in terms of enrollments and donations. Nationwide, day school enrollment has almost doubled…
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Culture Roman Holiday
Close to 1 million people in American Jewish families live in low-income households, according to a new study that appears to be the most extensive national communal study ever done about economic vulnerability among American Jews. The study released last month, which used data gathered during the 2001 National Jewish Population Study, looked at those…
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Israel News Master Architect Reclaims His Status as an Underdog
In person, the designer of the master plan for Ground Zero, Daniel Libeskind, is a small, cheerful man. But during the recent, much-publicized battles over the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, he has shown that he is not afraid to roll up his sleeves. Libeskind filed a lawsuit last month against Larry Silverstein,…
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Culture A City’s Renewal Fails To Dim Lure of Suburbs
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Across a highway from the Hawthorne Plaza mall, the largest Jewish congregation in Kansas City’s metropolitan area has recently found a new home next to grassy fields of chirping cicadas. After its historic synagogue in the city was demolished last September, B’nai Jehudah became the latest, and nearly the last, congregation…
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