Thursday, January 05, 2023
Orthodox Jews hire huge billboards blasting the New York Times over 12 articles lashing 'failing' Yeshiva schools in three months, as they beg woke paper to 'stop attacking our community'
An Orthodox Jewish group has launched a campaign against The New York Times blasting the newspaper for its investigative coverage into the city's private yeshiva schools over the past few months.
At least three billboards were put up in Manhattan by the Agudath Israel of America group that accuse the newspaper's investigation of threatening their way of life and call the articles 'misleading and one-sided portrayals' of their community.
A billboard near Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan asks The New York Times to 'stop attacking' Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews.
The billboard claims that The New York Times has featured 12 articles against Orthodox Jews in three months. Another section of the billboard reads, '2x New York City Antisemitic Attacks Doubled.'
In recent months, The New York Times has published a series of investigative articles focused on the schools, known as yeshivas, and the community. The articles claim the school system deprives children of secular education, exploits public funding, contributes to poverty and mistreats students.
Times bosses have defended their reporting, with one school featured since fined $8 million for corruption.
The new campaign includes three billboards in Midtown Manhattan, an informational video, social media outreach, and a website called KnowUs.org.
'They disparage our way of life writ large — everything from the way we educate our children, handle marriage, divorce and custody disputes and even the way we support our families while holding fast to our faith and traditions,' the group stated.
The campaign aims to highlight the growing violence against Jews in New York, stating that: 'A major newspaper launching a campaign against a minority group is always wrong. In this climate, it is deeply concerning.'
The New York Times investigation found that local yeshivas deprive students of secular education, and that all 1,000 students failed the standardized tests in reading and math.
The stories published also reported that some students at the yeshivas had been subjected to physical abuse by unqualified teachers while the yeshivas have taken more than $1 billion in federal, state and local taxes over the past four years.
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