At a time when antisemitic attacks in New York are at an all time high, the New York Times staffers have nothing better to do than fan the flames of hate and continue their decade old crusade against Orthodox Jews.
On Sept. 11, a day which shook our nation to the core and united all Americans, this newspaper took aim at the Hasidic community by publishing a hit piece on the front page. Not only that, but in an unprecedented move they had the entire article translated into Yiddish.
As one thinker pointed out, even if their data was accurate, they are omitting a vital aspect of the research. Hasidic kids who attend these schools and are so called “underprivileged and victims”, are happy. In thousands of public schools throughout the New York area where the educational system is apparently working, how many kids are actually happy? What is the rate of suicide? How many kids are heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol and depressed? These Hasidic kids don’t have smartphones but are studying the holy texts that their parents and grandparents did for thousands of years. Happily.
One woman on Twitter commented, “You are sending them into a lifestyle of poverty!” This seems one of the central accusations against the Hasidic community, that by not providing them with the New York State level education they will fall into poverty. Here is a response to that claim. Whats inherently wrong with poverty? Poverty is deemed negative because of what comes as a result of the poverty. So typically, high poverty levels are accompanied by high crime, homelessness and worse. In this case, there is no crime between the Hasidic community and no homelessness. So they are simply making less money? Okay. They are not complaining about that, you are. I would add that many, many Hasidim are actually very successful in almost every profession in the business world.
The result of a two year @nytimes investigation is a pitiful rehash of cherry picked data and inaccuracies, peddled by the same group obsessed with Orthodox Jews.
What’s clear is that the NYT is not interested in the positive value of our schools, just spreading lies for clicks.
— Simcha Eichenstein (@SEichenstein) September 11, 2022
Neo-Nazis in my mentions: “Yeshiva kids are illiterate and unemployable.”
Me: Actually, they’re literate in 3 languages and Pew finds that they earn above the national average and are 3.5x more likely to earn above $150K.
Neo-Nazis: Ohhh, it’s all about the money with you Jews! pic.twitter.com/QsTrytsHMo
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) September 11, 2022
Without getting into the whole Yeshiva Education Debate, the very fact that the @nytimes chose to publish a story about Yeshivas as the most prominent story on September 11th, when the terror attacks we suffered should be the top story, shows that the paper is extremely biased. pic.twitter.com/AtQvV0GGOq
— Shloime Zionce | שלומי זייאנץ (@Chusidel) September 11, 2022
80 years ago we were stuck into the bottom of page 26. Now we're on the front page, on top of the fold.
Shame! pic.twitter.com/unXYxZPXxC
— Yochonon Donn (@Yochidonn) September 11, 2022
You should keep the @nytimes article away from members of the Hasidic community. It’s only making them more determined to ignore the bigots and stick to their values and their inimitable way of life. So today was a good day for both committed Orthodox Jews and vile anti Semites.
— Ami Magazine (@Ami_Magazine) September 12, 2022
NYC has thousands of failing public schools, hundreds of thousands failing students with a failed education system, yeshiva parents should be proud of its education, we will continue and continue and continue.
— Yaakov Schapiro (@YaakovSchapiro) September 11, 2022
And it seems that no one has an issue with the millions of dollars spent in the NYC education system that's going to waste every year, look on the public school statistics, it's a nightmare to see whats happening in the FAILED public school system, why is that not a problem ?
— Yaakov Schapiro (@YaakovSchapiro) September 11, 2022
Hasidic New Yorkers are doctors, lawyers, businessmen, elected officials, journalists, and more. There are thousands of stories of success in the community. Instead, the Times chose to focus on a few unfortunate cases.
It’s a shameful & transparent attack on Orthodox Jews. https://t.co/IQ6BV0iyH4
— Chaim Deutsch (@ChaimDeutsch) September 11, 2022
Hoping that someone at the @nytimes can help this longtime subscriber decipher this chart—which seems to show that Jewish schools as a whole are doing a subpar job educating. https://t.co/vCSeQdJMo6
— Dovi Safier (@safier) September 11, 2022
@nytimes I am trying to understand the point this graphic makes .
Chassidic schools that teach little English do poorly and hence it is the cause of their poverty. Public schools do poorly because their students are economically disadvantaged ?! pic.twitter.com/Lpr7bZOfLs— @Richard Altabe (@Raltabe) September 11, 2022
For those who don’t seem to know what it means to proselytize. They don’t look for non Jews to become Jews. They (Chabad) encourage a return to the practicing of Judaism to those who are already Jewish. pic.twitter.com/XWT25NjwNG
— David Draiman (@davidmdraiman) September 12, 2022
Unsurprisingly @nytimes failed to report on this past friday's massive Boro Park funeral of Yanky Meyer zt'l a 9/11 WTC responder who went on to found a org with 7 digit annual budget that is respected by every gov agency but we should trust that they understand our community???
— Yosef H (@yossy770) September 11, 2022
Zealots in the corporate media are preparing another hit piece defending failing public schools, this time by attacking religious Jews.
It’s disgraceful. https://t.co/8DncBhQzGF
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 9, 2022
During the last 70 years tens of thousands of students have graduated from our #Satmar School System not a single student ever murdered a human being (unlike the “substantially equivalent” Public School system) we are proud of our success and will continue without State control! https://t.co/YKyMA7r8mM
— Satmar Headquarters (@HQSatmar) September 11, 2022
Why is this so controversial?? The schools should teach English and they shouldnt hit kids. Pshita!
ya agree
Funny how you don’t mention any of the responses to these tweets; many by members and ex-members of these chassidish groups, confirming everything on the article, and decrying hack PR pieces (like this one) thinking that if you pretend there’s no problem it will go away…
The claim that everyone is happy is a tragic joke. What of the thousands of kids who graduate these yeshivos then leave the community entirely? What about the terrifyingly high substance abuse and suicide statistics in that cohort?
They may have left the community, but they’re still graduates of the schools. Just because they’re OTD doesn’t mean they no longer count. These are the truest failures of the yeshiva system, and they are a tragic consequence of exactly what the Times retorted on