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.
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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.”
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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
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Seems to me that the communities effected most by these regulations are the ones who continue to support the Democrats who continue to pursue these regulations
Rabbi David Zwiebel, your response should be to come out and unite behind Lee Zeldin. Not another statement and another press conference. VOTE LEE ZELDIN!! We new Yorkers can do it!!! Booklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Kiryas Joel, New Square, Monsey, Sullivan County… We have tens of thousands of eligible voters… all we need is unity!!
It’s about time to stop taking handouts
Aguda/fjcc/satmar are all supporting hochul HELLO she is the 1 person behind this COORDIANATED effort
Time to move out of ny. Show them what happens to their neighborhoods
Or worse. Threaten to put all the kids in public school and overwhelm their system
In the 1930s they covered for the Soviets, in the 1940s they covered for the nazis, now they cover for the islamic terrorists.
The rag are Jew hating terrorist supporting scum not fit to line the bird cage.
The 5,000 or so people who attended the Satmar business expo a few months ago proves that the chasidishe mosdos are doing a pretty good job of preparing their students for life after school. I’m not Satmar, but most of my children and their spouses (almost 20 people k”eh). did not complete high school, and except for one son in law none of my children went to college, but boruch Hashem they all own their own businesses, or they work or someone that had a chasidishe education.
Well, when the removal of the religious exemption for Vax was removed R’Hershal Meisels made a public plea that regardless what your opinion about Vax is the precedence of “law over religion” will come back to hurt EVERYONE.
Everyone laughed at the crazy anti Vax…. 2 short years later… Covid… Shuls schools shut all in the name of health.
Now in the name of education…
Wait when they come for Bris Mila h’y! ‼
We were warned!
The day is coming that every heimish Yiddish family is going to have to flee from this cursed state – hochul or whoever else notwithstanding. If we want our children to be matzliach in Yiddishkeit, if we want to live in relative peace, left to protect our families, values, etc. start thinking about living outside of crumbling, dying NY and NJ (yes, sorry Lakewood = same story). As long as it will be for Moshiach to arrive, please Hashem, it should be imminent – we need to find other places in golus to wait in. To stay here is sakana nefoshos – every moment!
So now because of all the “warnings”…the article will be read by ten times as many people..and even more sensational..
so how can I be a part of the lawsuit, so I can paid for being defamed?
Warren Buffet is quoted as saying that the number one trait he looks for in hiring employees is “integrity”. I would say, based on our experiences with the current and previous governing leadership, Warren Buffet wouldn’t be hiring from NY State. Go deeper into the education system and definitely no hiring. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” saith Pogo the wise.
Just one point, in almost any area of life..you can only help those that want to be helped , there are so many non jews seeking gov. help , teachers, kids, single moms, whole neighborhoods are dysfunctional..from a practical sense why not channel your efforts that way
The 5,000 or so people who attended the Satmar business expo a few months ago proves that the chasidishe mosdos are doing a pretty good job of preparing their students for life after school. I’m not Satmar most of my children and their spouses k”eh (almost 20 people). did not complete high school, and except for one son in law none of my children went to college, but boruch Hashem they all own their own businesses, or they work or someone that had a chasidishe education.
None of the students of these yeshivas or their parents ever see VIN.
the subjects taught in high school Such as Advanced Math, History,Sciences , and English literature have absolutely no inherent benefit to the average person jew or Non-Jew they are a waste of time money, and effort. people who choose to enter professions that require those subjects should go to specialized schools that teach those subjects however the whole society has no need to waste their time with these irrelevant subject
Smear? Read the story and then decide if it is a smear. It seems many things are wrong with many of these schools that refuse to obey the law.
Now I see. The Times did not confirm it would publish. It provide advanced copies to those concerned for comment.
The point is kot wether we chaisim areanaging financially without a secular education, the point is we have every right to get an education to he able to communicate with the outside world especially when our rigorous yeshiva education is not made for most of our community
Plain and simple. kids coming out of Chasidisha schools cannot speak a proper English!! Forget about the secular the subjects. This hampers them and puts them at a disadvantage them for their future. Stop the nonsense that a few made it rich
Why we regular ultra-Orthodox community defend them, when we ourselves find it beneficial and necessary to give out children a proper education, is mind boggling
Moshe Margaretten, the big Afghanistan man, is now trying to become a macher with this issue too?
Moishie, if Hasidic education is so good, why have you been working so hard to get Hasids out of jail? How did they end up there in the first place?