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BREAKING: NYT Confirms it Will Publish Smear Story Against Yeshivas, One Day Before Crucial Vote.
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The New York Times, which for years has crusaded against Charedim, has confirmed that it will publish a vicious article against yeshivas on Sunday.
The “paper of record” will publish a bombshell article maligning the yeshiva system based on lies, fabrications, distortions, and isolated anecdotes that do not reflect the vast majority of yeshivas.
Despite pleas from Jewish leaders not to publish the story, in addition to a legal threat, the reporter writing the story sent an email to those who were interviewed, confirming the article’s publication.
NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER CONFIRMING THAT THE REPORT ON HASIDIC YESHIVAS IS COMING TOMORROW. PIC.TWITTER.COM/QMCVVPQKKL
— SHLOMO FELBERBAUM (@SHLOMOFELBER) SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
By all accounts, the “news” article will malign Chassidic yeshivas and be heavily slanted against the ultra-Orthodox community.
This past week, Chassidic schools received notice that the article will be published imminently after years of research. It is being published now, “coincidentally” the day before the state Board of Regents plans to vote on equivalency guidelines, which has led to speculation that the state has colluded with reporters to conduct a nasty smear campaign against Charedim.
According to Hamodia, the authors will recycle old arguments to falsely and baselessly paint yeshiva curriculums as substandard and sorely lacking.
In response, Rabbi David Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudas Yisrael, said the Times bases its bogus claims on anecdotal evidence: “The overwhelming majority of these schools are independent entities, with their own governing bodies, their own administrations, their own policies and practices,” he wrote. “To make generalized allegations and draw generalized conclusions against 150 independent schools on the basis of what you found at a tiny percentage of those schools is a classic case of tarring with an overly broad brush.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas also blasted the Times, calling this a “hit piece defending failing public schools by attacking religious Jews.”
ZEALOTS IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA ARE PREPARING ANOTHER HIT PIECE DEFENDING FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS TIME BY ATTACKING RELIGIOUS JEWS.
IT’S DISGRACEFUL. HTTPS://T.CO/8DNCBHQZGF
— SENATOR TED CRUZ (@SENTEDCRUZ) SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
State Senator Simcha Eichenstein published a powerful op-ed, saying: “The forthcoming article in the Times will defame an entire community based on sometimes anonymous critics, cherry-picked data, and outright lies.”
He went on to defend yeshivas and point out the hypocrisy of the Education Department, which ignores the atrocious public school system and targets Jews.
An email sent to yeshivas by the NYT reporter, warning about the upcoming article, said: “our highest priority in preparing this article is to ensure that it is accurate, comprehensive and fair,” and that “we want to get it right. If you believe we have something wrong, please tell us so immediately.”
A lawyer for the Tzedek Association sent a letter warning the Times against publishing a “false and defamatory” article..
Here is an excerpt from a letter by Erik Connolly of the Benesch law firm in Chicago to the paper: “There appears to be a high likelihood that your story will contain defamatory statements and implications about the Hasidic schools, including … statements that single out and stereotype the Hasidic community without providing proper contextual data, and implications that the Hasidic schools are engaged in illegal activities. In addition, we understand from emails you have sent to individual schools, that the article will also include statements of fact that are simply not true. The publication of such an article would not only be defamatory, it would also cause irreparable harm to the Hasidic community and further stigmatize its members.”NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The New York Times, which for years has crusaded against Charedim, has confirmed that it will publish a vicious article against yeshivas on Sunday.
The “paper of record” will publish a bombshell article maligning the yeshiva system based on lies, fabrications, distortions, and isolated anecdotes that do not reflect the vast majority of yeshivas.
Despite pleas from Jewish leaders not to publish the story, in addition to a legal threat, the reporter writing the story sent an email to those who were interviewed, confirming the article’s publication.
NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER CONFIRMING THAT THE REPORT ON HASIDIC YESHIVAS IS COMING TOMORROW. PIC.TWITTER.COM/QMCVVPQKKL
— SHLOMO FELBERBAUM (@SHLOMOFELBER) SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
By all accounts, the “news” article will malign Chassidic yeshivas and be heavily slanted against the ultra-Orthodox community.
This past week, Chassidic schools received notice that the article will be published imminently after years of research. It is being published now, “coincidentally” the day before the state Board of Regents plans to vote on equivalency guidelines, which has led to speculation that the state has colluded with reporters to conduct a nasty smear campaign against Charedim.
According to Hamodia, the authors will recycle old arguments to falsely and baselessly paint yeshiva curriculums as substandard and sorely lacking.
In response, Rabbi David Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudas Yisrael, said the Times bases its bogus claims on anecdotal evidence: “The overwhelming majority of these schools are independent entities, with their own governing bodies, their own administrations, their own policies and practices,” he wrote. “To make generalized allegations and draw generalized conclusions against 150 independent schools on the basis of what you found at a tiny percentage of those schools is a classic case of tarring with an overly broad brush.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas also blasted the Times, calling this a “hit piece defending failing public schools by attacking religious Jews.”
ZEALOTS IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA ARE PREPARING ANOTHER HIT PIECE DEFENDING FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS TIME BY ATTACKING RELIGIOUS JEWS.
IT’S DISGRACEFUL. HTTPS://T.CO/8DNCBHQZGF
— SENATOR TED CRUZ (@SENTEDCRUZ) SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
State Senator Simcha Eichenstein published a powerful op-ed, saying: “The forthcoming article in the Times will defame an entire community based on sometimes anonymous critics, cherry-picked data, and outright lies.”
He went on to defend yeshivas and point out the hypocrisy of the Education Department, which ignores the atrocious public school system and targets Jews.
An email sent to yeshivas by the NYT reporter, warning about the upcoming article, said: “our highest priority in preparing this article is to ensure that it is accurate, comprehensive and fair,” and that “we want to get it right. If you believe we have something wrong, please tell us so immediately.”
A lawyer for the Tzedek Association sent a letter warning the Times against publishing a “false and defamatory” article..
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…WE CANNOT SIT BY WHILE OUR RELIGIOUS RIGHTS ARE TRAMPLED UPON. ACCORDING TO THE EMAIL SENT BY THE @NYTIMES REPORTERS, THIS IS A DEFAMATORY HIT PIECE FILLED WITH INACCURACIES, MISCHARACTERIZATIONS, GENERALIZATIONS AND GOOD OL’ FASHIONED ANTISEMITISM AGAINST HASIDIC JEWS.
— RABBI MOSHE MARGARETTEN (@TZEDEK_ASSOC) SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
THE @NYTIMES IS DETERMINED TO BESMIRCH MY COMMUNITY WITH AN INNUENDO-RIDDEN HIT PIECE.
HERE’S MY OP-ED ON “ALL THE NEWS ABOUT YESHIVAS THAT THE TIMES DEEMS UNFIT TO PRINT” HTTPS://T.CO/V8KEO6KKTK
— SIMCHA EICHENSTEIN (@SEICHENSTEIN) SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IS RISING EXPONENTIALLY AND THIS IS THE STORY THE @NYTIMES IS PURSUING.
— BRETT L. TOLMAN (@TOLMANBRETT) SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
