This morning, the New York Times published yet another lengthy, prejudicial article against Orthodox Jews, this time targeting Kiryas Joel, a village which “is almost entirely populated by Hasidic Jews.”
The Times focuses its harsh spotlight on certain legitimate, school-related payments made by the Kiryas Joel school district to the United Talmudical Academy (U.T.A.) of Kiryas Joel. The report seems determined to find a scandal. But other than reiterating concerns about conflict-of-interest policies, the Times fails to find its smoking gun.
Is it nefarious or even surprising that when seeking to rent specialized school space, the district would do so from the nonprofit that supplies the majority of it in the district, and “provides schooling for most of the children in Kiryas Joel?” Moreover, ominous innuendo notwithstanding, is it scandalous that the district repaired the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in the facility in which children with special education needs were learning?
To be sure, the Times includes a few sentences of balance in the article, including statements by District superintendent, Joel Petlin, and a brief acknowledgment that:
“Federal regulators have given the Kiryas Joel school system high marks over the years for the services it offers its students. And village leaders have said the school district is essential to accommodate Hasidic children with disabilities who cannot receive aid in the community’s private schools and might become targets of ridicule in other nearby public schools.”
But these plaudits are quickly discarded. The Times seems offended by the very notion of doing business with Hasidic Jews. It continues:
“But the money it sends to the U.T.A. and its affiliates has done more than just secure classroom space for the public-school programs. It has supported private schools that provide thousands of boys with only cursory instruction in English and math, and barely any science or social studies, setting some back for life.”
In other words, because the Times objects to the religious education that Hasidic Jews choose to offer their children, it is suggesting implementing a BDS, of sorts, for Hasidic Jewish institutions. Don’t do business with Hasidic institutions. Who knows, that money might support their religious education!
The New York Times portrays Hasidic Jews as ultra-religious, self-dealing caricatures, as black and white as the traditional garb they wear.
KnowUs, a project of Agudath Israel of America, urges all people of good faith – left, right, and center – to join the chorus of voices calling out the Times’ disturbing and unrelenting obsession with demonizing Orthodox Jews; its lack of balance; its irresponsibility in stoking the blazing flames of antisemitism; and its lack of critical context when presenting stories – at least when involving Orthodox Jews – the inclusion of which would paint a far more accurate, and full-colored picture.
i think it’s fair to say that that when most of our children complete the third grade, most (i know not all), can read two languages fluently with two different alphabets, in two different languages, from two different directions. i was a special educator in a public school system where many, many students could not read english fluently in high school and were still learning how to add 3+4+6+2 in ninth grade. hoe about the NY Times researching that?
Stop complaining. The 18th article will be followed by many more. This anti-Semitic schmatte does this because they can. And blasting them on this website will have zero impact.
There is one way and only one way to bring this to a halt. Boycott. No, stopping to buy the NYT won’t make a dent. But boycotting their advertisers hits them in the pocketbook. I would see who their advertisers are, select the biggest, and get working on the boycott.
amen to that. The problem is that how are the young guys going to get around without their Beemers, Audis and Benzs’
This will only end if these billboards will be in the hundreds all over the country.
The Jew York Times is running out of topics. Obviously, they are on their way out.
Well said!
Ask yourself what lives the NY times expects the yeshiva to prepare our jewish youth. It is true I was public schooled but now I have little when it comes to Shas. I took calculus for a world career. Our youths are not living for world careers and must master what makes them friendly. Not resting ways to perfect war, dryness or state velocity.
The yid enjoys his family and meals driven by talmud and propriety. The yeshiva well prepares the groups for jewish life.
Hoping it keeps on going
Better like this with an open obvious enemy, than when they used to offer platitudes while continuing to stab in the back.
& If they are opposing us,we collectively must be on to something worthwhile !
Furthermore,
Orthodox are forced [many unwillingly] to be less naive
The Times itself does not give great importance to these articles. On their online publication, where the overwhelming majority of its readers access it, this article is buried deep inside the page and well below the articles that most readers see. This is obviously a project that a couple of reporters have been assigned to and the Times posts it simply because they are paying for it. The average reader of the Times never sees these articles and so should not be the big deal many people think it is.
No, this is happening because Hashem is not happy with our actions. Stop accepting money from the government and do not comply with government (public health) mandates (lockdowns, masks, vaccines). The RBS hates any form of avoda zora. Put all your trust in the One above and anti-semitism will stop.
Its all very simple. We will never tolerate the Times fanatical love of the LGBTQ etc… agenda.
Therefore we are bad and they are “good”. Kind of reminds me of Sedom passing anti kindness laws where you could be arrested for having guests or other kind gestures. Now you are demonized if you say a man is a man and woman is a woman. Let’s put up walls around ourselves as high as they can go and ignore all this utterly stupidity. We don’t need them to know us. It wont help.
Let’s not forget the several page story on the Brooklyn Eruv—as if any readers of the Times actually care about it. It discussed women in areas without an Eruv as being “trapped” in their homes and other “terrible” things that adherence to Torah causes. That article was worse than the one on Kiryas Yoel