Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
New York Times Celebrates Bob Dylan for Looking ‘Like Jesus’
What is it with The New York Times and Jews who become Christian? The top of the front page of the Times arts section features an...
‘Revisionist’ New York Times Suddenly Discovers New Love for Jabotinsky, Begin
The New York Times runs a truly overheated and ridiculous “Memo From Jerusalem” by Isabel Kershner under the headline “Is the End of Israeli Democracy...
New York Times Displays Double Standards on Gay, Jewish Identities
A recent New York Times article was headlined “Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll and Its Gay Architects.” It extensively discusses Brian Epstein, who was the manager of...
New York Times on Jewish Identity: Pork, an Israel-Apartheid Slur and Bashing Adelson and Netanyahu
Sunday’s issue of “T,” The New York Times' style magazine, carries a four-page feature headlined “Great American Novelists” in which “three fiction writers and one...
New York Times’ David Brooks Offers Up a False Trichotomy
One of David Brooks’s favorite column writing tricks is the false dichotomy — presenting two choices as mutually exclusive when in fact there is overlap...
New York Times Launches ‘Strident’ Attack on Ambassador Haley for Iran Truthtelling
The New York Times cheerleading for Iran is spilling over from its editorial and op-ed pages into its news columns. The Times recently published seven editorial...
New York Times Pulls Out All the Stops to Push Iran Deal
Seven to two is the lopsided score of opinion pieces the New York Times has published this month about the Iran nuclear deal. That’s seven pieces...
New York Times Touts Jewish Role in ‘the Promise of Muslim Communism’
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto, in his “Best of the Web” column, used to have a running category called “Questions Nobody Is Asking.” It is...
New York Times Claims Jew’s Conversion to Christianity Was ‘Widely Praised’
The New York Times uses an arts section brief about an auction of the Declaration of Independence to inform its readers that the conversion of...
Subtly Misleading New York Times Writes of ‘the Israeli Conflict’
A New York Times interview with an art collector veers onto sensitive ground with a reference to “the Israeli conflict.” The full passage is from an...
Sorry New York Times, You Actually DO Have to Be Jewish to Celebrate Rosh Hashana
Bari Weiss is one of my favorite New York Times editorial staffers, which isn’t necessarily saying much, but does say something. I hope saying it...
New York Times Blunders Again on Jewish Literacy
The New York Times has managed yet another blunder in basic Jewish literacy. The latest offense comes in an otherwise interesting and so far as I...
New York Times Whitewashes Iraq’s History of Killing Jews
A New York Times article about Israel’s support for Kurdish independence gives readers a false impression about how Jews were treated in Iraq. The Times news...
New York Times Column Ignores Rabbi Sacks Role in Trinity School Overhaul
A British rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, has inspired the head of one of Manhattan’s oldest, fanciest, and best historically Christian private schools to overhaul its school...
