Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
The New York Times Remembers Fritz Stern, Vaguely
A New York Times obituary of Fritz Stern, a professor at Columbia who was a historian of Germany, reads in part: Like many German historians of...
From New York Times on Israeli Politics, Some Ultra-Bad Journalism
A headline and a news article in the New York Times describe Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party as “ultranationalist.” “Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks...
New York Times Article on Arab-Jewish Solar Project Turns Into Attack on Settlements
Just how bad is Sunday’s New York Times feature article about a solar energy array in a West Bank Palestinian Arab village that was built...
The New York Times Gets Lost in Jerusalem
A New York Times dispatch from Jerusalem about a court’s conviction of a Palestinian teenager for the October 2015 stabbing of two Israelis -- a...
New York Times Illustration Likening Circumcision to Pencil-Sharpening Prompts Uproar
Snip or not snip. A look at what the science says about male circumcision. https://t.co/Ty760Iw3Wp pic.twitter.com/5erRDEgU1E — The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) May 10, 2016 The Jewish doctor who...
What’s Behind the Recent Glut of New York Times Holocaust Stories?
The editor of a Jewish newspaper for which I worked once imposed an informal limit on the number of Holocaust-related stories in each issue, remarking,...
New York Times Falsely Denies Iranian Nuclear Violations Mentioned in Trump Foreign Policy Speech
Is live-blogging by New York Times reporters subject to the same standards of accuracy as articles in the newspaper are? Not that the standards for the...
On Sex, the New York Times Gets Judaism Wrong
An article in Sunday’s New York Times about the pop music star Prince, who died last week, asserts, “The Judeo-Christian ethic seems to demand that...
Unflattering Truths About the New York Times’ ‘Unkosher’ Jewish-Food Obsession
The New York Times is obsessed with Jewish food — in a way that is unflatteringly revealing about the newspaper’s overall attitude toward Jews and...
Latest Cohen Column in New York Times Carries Two Blatant Errors
In an opinion column in the New York Times, Roger Cohen praises Bernie Sanders’ positions on Israel. Mr. Cohen is entitled to his opinion, but...
The New York Times Tries Explaining Its Flawed Crusade Against Yeshivas
A dispatch in the metro section of the New York Times is the latest installment in the paper’s campaign, in its news columns, against Jewish religious...
The New York Times Calls Obama ‘Israel’s Unsung Protector’
“Israel’s Unsung Protector: Obama” is the click-bait provocative headline the New York Times hangs over an opinion piece by Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace...
Major Jewish Organization Condemns New York Times Smear of the Orthodox
After an Algemeiner article on Wednesday highlighted a New York Times dispatch that gratuitously mentioned the religion of two businessmen related to an FBI corruption investigation...
New York Times Smears Orthodox Jews, Violates Own Policies
“F.B.I. Questions Police Leaders Amid Inquiry Into Businessmen Linked to de Blasio” is the headline of a New York Times dispatch. It takes the Times only two paragraphs...
