An explosive new report from Breitbart News exposes how the New York Times collaborated with the New York State government to create a series of articles that targeted Orthodox Jewish yeshivas. Over 800 pages of emails, obtained by Breitbart News through the Freedom of Information Act, provide a mountain of evidence of the coordination between the media outlet and the state authorities.
Eliza Shapiro, a reporter for The New York Times, is prominently featured in these communications. The obtained emails reportedly show Shapiro discussing with the New York State Education Department how “we” can craft comments for the series of articles targeting yeshivas. The emails also indicate that Shapiro worked closely with the government to assign blame for the Times’ allegations and to synchronize publication timing with a vote aimed at regulating yeshivas.
The first article in the series, published in September, claimed that yeshiva students “know nothing” and grow up with limited abilities to support their families. The article stirred controversy and raised an outcry about its accuracy and fairness. As previously reported, the article was curated with omitted information, excluded relevant sources, and disregarded pertinent on-the-record statements. Rather than being a fair look at yeshivas, it was used as a tool by secular political groups to attack the Orthodox Jewish community’s sacred institutions.
The timing of the Times’ investigation coincided with the Board of Regents’ unanimous vote to increase the state’s influence on the education of Jewish children. This decision stirred further speculation about the intent behind the article.
The newly revealed emails reportedly show the extent of cooperation between The New York Times and the New York State Education Department in crafting the narrative and maximizing its political impact. In one correspondence, Shapiro is seen working with the government to formulate the state’s comment on the reporting, giving the state almost a week longer to respond than the yeshivas that were the subject of the article.
Shapiro’s emails to Emily DeSantis, then-Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs at the Education Department, indicate discussions about the publication’s content and timing, showing that objectivity and independence wasn’t exactly high on the list of Shapiro’s priorities.
In an email to DeSantis, Shapiro wrote: “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 yeshivas targeted by the article were contacted four days later and were not offered to “walk you through it on a high level,” nor to “talk about what might make sense for comment.”
In another email, Shapiro is seen asking DeSantis for help with who to blame for yeshivas supposed failings.
“Good morning Emily, I have another fact checking question I’m hoping you can help with. We are planning to state that the yeshivas we mention appear to be violating the substantial equivalency law, based on our findings. We understand that the state constitutional guarantee to a basic education actually puts the onus on the state, rather than the schools, to enforce the law, so in that case the state violates the law. But I wasn’t sure whether it’s the state or the schools that can violate the SE law? Thanks so much for any guidance,” Shapiro wrote.
Furthermore, emails indicate that Shapiro inquired about the timing of the final Board of Regents vote on regulating yeshivas, suggesting a level of coordination between the Times’ reporting and the state’s actions.
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The lesson: If you’re not teaching their perversions the corrupt government and media will come after you.
Now what? Will this stupidity stop? Maybe some officials should go to jail due to antisemitism!
not shocking
Shocking?
Ccb45: All discrimination and percieved discrimination is off limits in America and the world besides discrimination against chareidi Jews
Why are you shocked. The New York Times for well over a generation has been the mouthpiece of the left-wing establishment (back in the “all the news that fit to print” era, they were more reflective of the overall establishment), and the New York Democratic is for all purposes the left-wing establishment. Your claiming to be shocked would be like being shocked that Pravda and the Communist Party (or if you prefer, Der Sturmer and the Nazi party) were working together.
chaya13: Discrimination is built into society, the legal system, the economy, etc. In theory everyone in America is “equal”, though one needs to consider the famous line about “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”
I hate the NY times. But when there is smoke, there is fire.
If only ten percent of the Times reporting is true, then these yeshivas are guilty of a colossal desecration of G-ds Name.
But here, non of us needed the Times to figure out what we all see for ourselves-Chasidish yeshivas have failed for decades to create a group of men who thrive as developed, complete Torah Jews.
פוק תהי חזי
Chaya- do chareidi jews discriminate against anyone ?
Think long and hard before you answer that please.
We need to expect that there are unpleasant people around who might attack us, either for political reasons or form a personal bias. Schools will be in a stronger position if they could show that they give solid reading/riting/rithmetics education that we have no religious problems with. Then, it will be easier to respond to attacks about teaching subjects that we have religious objections to.
Ashkenazi Jews iq is around 110
https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/29250
The average iq in the smartest country, Japan is 106.48
(Wisevoter.com)
All Jews who believe in Torah must permanently boycott The New York Times.
From now on: no more buying The New York Times at newsstands, no more subscribing to The New York Times, and no more advertising in The New York Times.
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Rabbi Benjamin Blech said:
It is time for Jews to say to the New York Times: “we’ve had enough.”
SOURCE: J’Accuse by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, 2014/7/30, aish (dot) com
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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein permanently stopped reading the New York Times:
SOURCE: Time’s Up for the New York Times in My Home
by Haskel Lookstein, 2019/5/13, algemeiner (dot) com
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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said:
“In the genocidal war being waged against the Jewish people, the New York Times is an accomplice.”
SOURCE: A New Low, a blog article by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, 2015/10/29
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One [New York] Times opinion editor, Matt Seaton, even admitted last year [2014 CE] that the newspaper has a policy of “veering away from criticism of Palestinians.”
SOURCE: Final sentence of article titled: “New York Times Editor: Coverage of Israel Most Criticized Aspect of Opinion Pages” by Shiryn Ghermezian, 2015 October 14, in: The Algemeiner.
“The [New York] Times has a longstanding aversion
to reporting straight-on demonization of the Jewish people…”
SOURCE: New York Times ends the year with an epic Israel smear
by Andrea Levin, 2019/1/1, JNS (dot) org
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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said:
“…the almost torrential criticism of Israel and the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism, including by this paper [the New York Times], which has become so common that people have been desensitized to its inherent bigotry.”
SOURCE: New York Times AntiSemitic Cartoon Controversy
Escalates by Ira Stoll, 2019 April 28, in: The Algemeiner.
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Bari Weiss, who resigned from The New York Times in year 2020, explained that in the offices of The New York Times, truth “isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else” in a form “molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Nadir by Jerold S. Auerbach for JNS (dot) org
Why Richard Block (a Jewish Liberal-Democrat)
UNSUBSCRIBED from the New York Times:
“I am a lifelong Democrat, a political liberal,
a Reform rabbi, and for four decades,
until last week, a New York Times subscriber.
What drove me away was the paper’s incessant
denigration of Israel, a torrent of articles,
photographs, and op-ed columns that consistently
present the Jewish State in the worst possible light.”
SOURCE: Why I’m Unsubscribing from the New York Times
by Richard A. Block, 2014 August 28, from Tablet Magazine
On June 1, 2006, former New York City mayor Ed Koch wrote an opinion piece in the [New York] Times titled “The New York Times’ Anti-Israel Bias,” asserting that “the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] and the New York Times consistently carry news stories and editorials that are slanted against Israel and sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.”
SOURCE: Unfreedom of the Press (chapter 6, page 157) by Mark R. Levin, published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC, ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092
WHEN WILL JEWS FINALLY WAKE-UP, AND BOYCOTT THE NEW YORK TIMES?
Non chareidi amiti,
I suggest you get out of your cocoon
I 💔 NY🗽
I 💔💔 NYT 📰
The NYC Public Schools have failure, truancy and crime. They have a tremendous dropout rate…and all of that is with the curriculum that they claim the yeshivos need. They are vicious Jew haters.
RE: coffee addict August 10, 2023 7:20 pm at 7:20 pm
Ashkenazi Jews iq is around 110
When IQ tests were first used in a widespread systematic way, to evaluate recruits for the American army in World War I (most Ashkenazim, who were largely recent immigrants) were found to be significantly sub-normal (and WASPs, especially “northern” and well educated ones, were found to be much smarter than most). I suspect if IQ tests were used today, it would show that secular Jews tended to be above average, and frum Jews below average. IQ measures how you rate based on the dominant culture of the country, i.e., if you have become the sort of person the author and administrator of the tests wants you to become. It has nothing to do with intelligence, and anyone who thinks it does is either a racist or a fool, or at least highly gullible.
I take any “chassidisher” broken yinglish into business before 95% of college educated folks, let alone public school “education”. They are much worthy for the business success than all of the “public school educated kids”.
The NYT knows this! The Democrats know it, you folks know it (but never let HATE AND JEALOUSY get in the way)
Stop being embarrassed by our yeshiva students, we are better than them in everything!!!!!! Our schools don’t have to have gates like a zoo, or X-ray machines when you come in….
STOP 🛑 THE SELF HATE AND SELF SHAME!
Why is it always that the biggest anti semites are people with names sounding like Eliza shapiro?