Tag: The New York Times
‘New York Times’ to Jews: Forget thy right hand
Marc Tracy's New York Times article on Jan. 14 refers to "left-wing" Jews and a "left-wing" Jewish publication, and a "far-right" Israeli government and its "extreme-right ministers." The avian metaphors add up to the culture reporter to...
Brooklyn-based restaurant takes the cake
A black-and-white, seven-layer cake from Gertrude’s, a restaurant that serves “Jew-ish cuisine” in Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the city’s “Top 8” dishes, according to The New York Times.
Gertrude’s, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood, is...
Thomas Friedman erupts against Israel yet again
I had told myself not to waste time reacting to the weekly eruptions of Old Faithful Thomas L. Friedman, but the misinformation he spouts every week, amplified by The New York Times’ abandonment of journalistic ethics, makes...
Kidnapped sign outside ‘Times’ office accuses paper of ‘whitewashing Jew-hatred’
Coincidentally, vandals defaced two posters depicting Israeli hostages that Hamas terrorists are holding in the Gaza Strip near a large billboard CAMERA took out near the Midtown Manhattan offices of The New York Times. According to...
‘New York Times’: Orthodox Jews not ‘archetypical’
If there is a quintessential New York Times reporter, that writer might complain that Orthodox New York Jews have too much influence and are not the “archetypical Jewish New Yorker.”
That’s just what Dana Rubinstein did in...
Brandeis under fire for ‘anything but orthodox’ ad
A page on the Brandeis University website's about section refers to "Our Jewish roots." Founded in 1948, the school "is animated by a set of values that are rooted in Jewish history and experience,"...
Daily Signal: New York Times doesn’t deserve Pulitzer for series on Chassidic schools
A late December 2022 New York Times article about Chassidic schools reaping a special-education funding “windfall” is “a plausible and powerful story, but almost every detail of it withers under scrutiny.” That’s according to a May...
The New York Times’ unethical war on Chassidic schools
Few members of the general public pay much attention to Pulitzer Prizes. Like most such competitions, they are subjectively decided and often say more about intellectual fashion than excellence in journalism and the arts...
Thomas Friedman’s fury
Nothing riles New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman more than an Israeli government with the audacity to disregard his opinions and demands. His laceration of the Jewish state stretches as far back as his undergraduate years...
NY Times story on Orthodox school finances ‘misleading,’ says school official
The superintendent of the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District in New York is responding to allegations in a New York Times report on Monday that it misused funds the town allotted for the public-school system...