Nadene Goldfoot
Why would a New York newspaper, owned by Jews, the state with the highest population of Jews, cover Jews and Israel with biased and hateful misinformation and half-truths? Flame has shown us that this is true of the New York Times, a newspaper that requires a fee to read their on-line news articles. Oftentimes they are giving their readers blatant antisemitic coverage.
(Over 60% of American Jews live in just six states. Slightly over 20% resides in New York State, 14% in California, followed by 12% in Florida; 8% in New Jersey; and 5% each in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) Jews make up only 2% of the USA population .
Jews come in all sizes and flavors, so to speak. We have Jews on the left-many of them, and Jews on the right and Jews in the middle. The same goes for our religion; we have orthodox, reform and conservative. We have men and women, each with their special interests. So it depends on who is the captain at the New York Times, and that looks like someone on the left.
Arthur Gregg's father, Sulzberger, was born to a Jewish family on February 5, 1926, in New York City, the son of Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Iphigene Bertha Ochs (daughter of Adolph Ochs, the former publisher and owner of The New York Times and the Chattanooga Times and granddaughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise). He had a sister named Judy, which gave rise to his nickname, "Punch", in reference to the British traditional puppet show, Punch and Judy. Sulzberger graduated from the Loomis Institute and then enlisted into the United States Marine Corps during World War II, serving from 1944 to 1946, in the Pacific Theater. He earned a B.A. degree in English and history in 1951 at Columbia University. As student, he roomed with composer Philip Springer in John Jay Hall. As a member of the Marine Forces Reserve he was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. Following completion of officer training, he saw duty in Korea and then in Washington, D.C., before being inactivated.
AG's father was born February 5, 1926, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.; died September 29, 2012 at age 86.
His paternal grandfather, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was Jewish, and the rest of his family is of Christian background. (Episcopalian and Congregationalist). Through his father, Sulzberger is a grandson of Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger Sr., great-grandson of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and great-great-grandson of Adolph Ochs.
This tells me his parents were not observant of Judaism, so chances are that he was not raised as a Jew. Also, Jews do no use Jr. in naming babies. They nameafter a deceased person, not a live one, so the custom goes.
Wise was born on 29 March 1819 in Steingrub in Bohemia (today Lomnička, a part of Plesná in the Czech Republic). The son of Leo Weis, a schoolteacher, he received his early Hebrew education from his father and grandfather, later continuing his Hebrew and secular studies in Prague. He may have received the hattarat hora'ah from the Prague bet din, composed of Rabbis Rapoport, Samuel Freund, and E. L. Teweles, or from Rabbi Falk Kohn, however there is debate as to whether he was an ordained rabbi at all. It was even a source of controversy with his intellectual rival, Rabbi David Einhorn. In 1843 he was appointed rabbi at Radneitz (now Radnice near Plzeň), where he remained for about two years. In 1846 Weis emigrated to the United States, arriving on July 23. He changed the spelling of his surname to Wise.
As part of a program to defend Judaism against the inroads of Christianity, while refusing to demonize it, Isaac Mayer Wise offered innovative and influential views of the founding figures of Christianity. He was among the earliest Jewish scholars to reclaim Jesus as a Jew, and, more controversially, to suggest that Paul was in fact the Talmudic figure Acher.
Sulzberger worked as a reporter for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland from 2006 to 2009, writing more than 300 pieces about local government and public life, including a series of investigative exposés on misconduct by Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto.
On December 14, 2017, it was announced that Sulzberger would take over as publisher on January 1, 2018. He is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to serve in the role.
One sees things differently according to their own personal experiences and interests. What's amazing is a reporter like Joan Peters, who was not Jewish but wrote a book defending Jews creating Israel called From Time Immemorial. She had started this writing project by being defensive about the Palestinian Arab rights, but by going to actual original records, like an excellent reporter should, she changed her mind and thus, her position. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, was a consultant in the creation of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary on the subject for PBS. According to the Walker Agency, which booked speaking and touring engagements for her, Peters also served as an adviser to the White House on American foreign policy in the Middle East during the Carter administration, and how much more to the left can you go with Carter?
He had his own religious ideas and wound up himself writing a book or books against Israel, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a New York Times Best Seller book written by 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. It was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006. causing some of us to turn against Democrats, period. It again referred to Israel as an apartheid state, something that has been refuted time and time again, more the opposite. I see that lie and I get hysterical!!! Israel is made up of human beings, different only in that they try very hard to live up to their religious laws of which the first 10 should be a little familiar to the general population, and running a government by apartheid standards is not the way of Israel. Jews have been the 2nd class citizens of Europe and the Middle East, so they do know how to treat their citizens as 1st class citizens. The law says to treat others as you would want to be treated. What's maddening are the people we know that swallow such lies that Carter espoused, and that's where readers have to beware.
Look at what has been happening to Israel the past week or so, with the whole country demonstrating against their new government who is about to revise or improve their supreme court judges and rules to "improve them". Anybody about to ruin what they have established is going to hear about it; really hear about it. Israelis are not shy people.
Too many reporters have wound up in the nearest restaurant with a drink or two and hearing about the incident from others around them and use that as their resource.
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