This is not an easy article to write. Back in Brooklyn, in the sixth grade our school had a deal with the Times by which everyone in the class received a copy Monday through Friday, delivered to our desk, for the munificent sum of ten cents each. (To further elaborate on how long ago it was Newsweek and Times had a newsstand price of 25 cents.) Then, in the ninth grade my English teacher assigned the class to read the Arts and Leisure section of the Sunday Times and gave us a ten-question quiz on it Monday morning. Furthermore, we scrutinized the cartoon on the first page of Arts and Leisure to count the Nina’s. (For the uninitiated, the artist, Al Hirschfeld, liked to insert his daughter’s name in the cartoon. It could appear as a swirl of a bouffant hairdo or a pleated dress, for example. He signed his name with a subscript giving the number of Ninas).

So, we grew up regarding the Times as the gold standard of journalism. Today, however, we see that the gold is tarnished. Most of us know that the Times is obsessed with slandering the State of Israel. No lie is too big or too small. At the same time, the paper has increasingly adopted the anti-Semitic stance of its fellow Leftist periodicals, by publishing a series of libelous articles about New York’s yeshivas, accusing them of everything from providing an inadequate secular education to fraudulently accepting public money for special education, as well as a drumbeat of lies accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. They notably published without fact-checking a claim by the Gaza Health Ministry after October 7 that Israel had bombed a hospital, killing 471 people, when it subsequently was found that the explosion came from an errant Islamic Jihad rocket that hit the parking lot, causing about fifty casualties.

Since then, the Times has parroted every fable promulgated by Hamas. One of the most egregious was printing the photo of a frail child in his mother’s arms, resembling Madonna and child, depicted as suffering from severe malnutrition to support the allegation that Israel was starving Gazans. (Actually, Hamas is starving Israeli hostages). The original story........

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