(VINnews) — Breitbart News obtained hundreds of pages of government emails, exposing the NY Times for working closely with New York State’s Education Dept to craft its disgraceful series of anti-Chassidic articles.
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In the groundbreaking story, Breitbart wrote:
The Times’ Eliza Shapiro…is seen in the massive volume of communications, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, discussing with the State Education Department how “we” can craft comment for the first story…targeting yeshivas, and giving the government almost a full business-week longer than the schools to comment. Emails also show she worked with the government to direct blame for the Times’ allegations, and coordinated timing on publishing with a vote to regulate the religious schools.”
The story added:
As Breitbart previously reported, the “investigation” dropped in what appeared to be unbelievable timing, the day before the Board of Regents held a unanimous vote, without debate, to allow state functionaries heavier say in the education of Orthodox children. Those children happen to be of parents vehemently opposed to the social justice curriculum that has been injected into most other New York schools.
The article observed that the two “journalists” were far more responsive to the government than to yeshivas.
In one correspondence, Shapiro is seen working with the government to produce the state’s comment on the reporting, with almost a week longer to respond than the private religious schools being maligned.
“Hi! Hope all is well with you. We are aiming to publish the yeshiva investigation late next week and I wanted to walk you through it on a high level and we can talk about what might make sense for comment. I’m flexible today if you have some time. Thanks so much,” reporter Eliza Shapiro emailed then-Education Department Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs, Emily DeSantis, on August 29. The subject line of that email was “Walking you through the yeshiva story.”
The story concluded with a stunning allegation, suggesting that Governor Kathy Hochul is targeting yeshivas as an act of revenge.
BOMBSHELL: @NYSEDNews collaborated with @nytimes reporters (@elizashapiro) “to produce the state’s comment on the reporting, with almost a week longer to respond than the private religious schools being maligned.” Indefensible bigotry.
https://t.co/FMSB4Nqzqw via @BreitbartNews— Rabbi Yaakov Menken (@ymenken) August 8, 2023
The timing and inaccuracies were suspicious, but now @EmmaJoNYC got the receipts – @elizashapiro and @brianmrosenthal coordinated their polemic with the @NYSEDNews to subjugate yeshivos.
And it still came out sloppy. https://t.co/JnHyGWNxnv
— Yochonon Donn (@Yochidonn) August 8, 2023
The Hochul administration is using yeshiva regulations as a cudgel against the Hasidic community, which turned on Democrats in the last gubernatorial election, following the action taken against their children’s schools, according to a report in the Gothamist.
“As Zeldin made repeated stops in Hasidic neighborhoods, the Hochul administration was keeping close watch: Those who levied especially bad faith attacks on the governor, the source said, may find themselves cut out of future discussions about yeshiva oversight,” the article says in a stunning revelation, attributed to a person in the governor’s office who did not have permission to speak on the issue.
If there is anything we learned in the last few years, whether in the United States, Israel, and basically across the world is that if you’re a leftist, progressive, anarchist, liberal you can say what you want even if it a blatant lie, cancel anyone that dares stand up to your self-righteousness, cause mayhem and bedlam, riot peacefully and everyone will bow down to you in “shame.” But G-D forbid if someone who has right wing views will use the wrong pronoun, ‘hurt’ the feelings of a misguided gender person, misspeak, disagree or the worst thing be a Trump supporter. Then you are part of a cult movement, a white supremacist. I hope the yeshivos take the NY Tuma and NY state to court over this and sue them for every penny they have.
The Democrats hate religious Jews, they hate all religious people, the only religious people they like are Islamists, but keep voting for them.
I wish there was a major lawsuit against the New York Slimes and the New York State government. That would be awesome.
In fact, I’m willing to bet that there is going to be a major scandal with the current governor and she will be forced to resign in disgrace. Don’t start up with us!
The New York Times and its ilk’s with so called inside information besides being anti-Semitic Der Sturmer style are also hypocrites.
With all the crimes going on in this once great NYC not one is done by a Frum person.
The killings, the wounding’s, the brazen thefts in retail stores, throwing bottles at police officers and what not non is done by a Frum person.
Every road rage is potential killings.
And the reason Frum observant Jews are not criminals is because every step of our life is guided by the Torah. From the Torah we take our education and our Morals.
NY Times,
Message to you. As much as you would want us to follow the disgusting woke agenda we sill stick to our dear Torah the almighty gave us. And we know that you dispise and hate the Torah and the Frum Jews who follow it but we don’t care.
Keep voting for democrats remember elections have consequences! R’ Aron from Satmar and R’ Duvid from New Square should we still vote for Hochul דע מכשפה?
Yeshivagate 2.0.
Coumo started the first in revenge for not obeying his orders
Is this “government conspiracy to commit a hate crime”?
Surprise the new York slimes hates the Jew.
nyt/yaffed/boe/nick agenda of lies EXPOSED
NYT is very much against religious Jews being religious and Jewish. they think that secular education is so much better, that’s the difference in the higher crime rates in secular America and much lower in the ultra orthodox areas.
Does “target” mean “report on their misconduct?”
Breitbart is full of antisemitism. Now they are pro-charedi yeshivas?
The biggest lie of the NYT is the fact that we have a system in place where people with no HS education can walk in and take an accounting course in 18 months, then get a job at PWC. No this isn’t an anecdotal few. PCS has 1000+ grads. And you need not be a genius to become a CPA. no offense to my fellow hardworking accountants. Yup it hurts them to know that their system of education is baloney and not really needed much.
P.S. It is still a good idea for mesifta boys to have some kind of secular education so that they have structure bec they can’t learn all day. But that’s a different issue.
A person is required to do hishtadlus. In some communities that means going to 12 grades through high school and in NYS take regents. In other communities it means going on to college. In the chasidishe communities it means giving a basic secular education until you get bar mitzva. The successful business expo Satmar had last year and again last month just proves that they are doing something right.