Tag: The New York Times
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...
How Americans can save Israeli democracy
President Joe Biden isn’t the first American president to intervene in Israeli politics. U.S. administrations have been doing so for decades with generally dismal results. Yet there was something different about the comments Biden recently made...
New York Times offers swastika-shaped crossword as Hanukkah gift
The Dec. 18 New York Times crossword puzzle, published on the eve of Hanukkah, disturbed readers and elicited online backlash with a design resembling a swastika.
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin tweeted, “Meanwhile, on the first night of...
Thomas Friedman tours Hebron’s Jewish community
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury visited Hebron on Thursday, hosted by Yishai Fleisher, international spokesman for the city’s Jewish community.
“It is obvious that we disagree about many things; nevertheless,...
Biden’s ‘build back better’ message to Iran, Israel and the Arabs
Critics of The New York Times sometimes claim that the newspaper’s biases render it unreadable. But those who avoid it are missing out on one of its key features: the way it serves as a sounding...
Online campaign ridicules ‘Times’ article describing Israelis as ‘angry,’ ‘displeased’
A viral social-media campaign poking fun at The New York Times was the No. 1 Twitter trend in Israel, even garnering the attention of the nation’s official Twitter account.
The newspaper published an article on Oct. 26,...
Is Mayim Bialik too Jewish for ‘Jeopardy’?
It may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting as much thought to the question of who will ultimately succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of “Jeopardy!” than they do...
The growing cost of anti-Israel media bias
For one of The New York Times’ most devoted readers, the front-page spread published on May 28 essentially accusing Israel of murdering Palestinian children was the final straw. Former Anti-Defamation League Abe Foxman tweeted that day that he was canceling...
What ‘The New York Times’ didn’t tell you about the children
“They Were Only Children,” was the headline of the unprecedented and pilloried front-page New York Times feature last week. The piece included pictures of the dozens of children killed in the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas, and...