NEW YORK (JNS) – One interpretation of a mishnah in Chapters of the Fathers is that Jews must prepare answers, with which to respond to those who hate Torah scholars. Hating those who cherish the Torah is one sense many readers may get from recent reporting in The New York Times on Orthodox schools.
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A new, 6-and-a-half-minute Fox News documentary—which Kassy Dillon, a former JNS news editor, reported—turns the camera on Orthodox leaders and scholars.
“We resent that the Times are engaged in what appears to be a crusade,” Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, an Orthodox rabbi and executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, told Dillon. “A crusade to get people to consider chassidic Jews in a negative light.”
Zwiebel added that the Gray Lady’s reporting on Orthodox Jews is “not only troubling, but even dangerous to a certain extent.”
He has not seen any change in Times coverage after meeting with the newspaper, and he hopes those stuck in traffic near the Lincoln Tunnel, adjacent to the Times building, in Times Square or in other Manhattan locations see Agudah’s billboards, which state, “Dear New York Times, words do break bones. Please stop attacking our community.”
Moshe Krakowski, a Yeshiva University professor who is an expert on Chassidic education, told Dillon that Orthodox Jews “feel demonized, justifiably, and would like people to get another side of the story since nobody else is actually articulating the other side of the story.”
For those who want to know that story, Zwiebel has some advice, and it isn’t to just read about Orthodoxy in the paper of record. “Get to really know us,” he said.
Don’t get to “know us”. Just leave us alone.
there are “news” papers that are actively biased against religious Jews. NYT in USA and jpost, Times of Israel, Ynet in Israel. plus many many more.
respond to the accusations, or stop the fraud.
crying anti-Semitism already sounds like crying wolf
getting to know us…. really??
the less they know the better.
Very interesting. We cannot defend against the NYT. We simply don’t want our kids getting an education, as we say it openly. So how do you defend against the NYT calling us out on education – – Attack the carrier of that criticism.
What is this idea of “get to know us” do? – you want to defend us, defend our idea of why we do not listen to the law of the land, that each child gets the opportunity to get a decent ENGLISH education, and then defend why we think we are right not doing so.
P. S. Get to know us! I am not sure 100%, it is such a good Idea – do we really want them to know how many of us in Lakewood, Square, Monroe live off Gov’t programs.
What is Zwiebel talking about with “Get to really know us “? How is that possible ? Can frum people socialize with goyim and invite the for Shabbos and yom tov ? Can frum people go to their homes , socialize ? What exactly is Zwiebel referring to ? Are we inviting goyish neighbors to simchas ? Are frum kids going to school with them ? Zwiebel please clarify . Thank you
Kudos to those who stand up to the hate filled liars of the nyt, notorious anti Chasid bigot, eliza shapiro, and the misyaffedim (whose founder is an unemployed shnorrer().
Believe what you see.. Not what you are told. Fox news is plenty antisemitic.