Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll

A Letter to The Pulitzer Prize Committee: Don’t Give Award for New York Times Yeshiva Series
KnowUs, a new project of Agudath Israel of America, has erected three Manhattan billboards and launched a website, KnowUs.org, and a YouTube video aimed at...

Four Worst Ways the New York Times Slimed the Jews in 2022
It was an ugly calendar year for The New York Times in terms of coverage of issues related to Israel and Jews—so ugly that choosing...

New York Times ‘Really Misses the Mark’ With Piece on Zionist-Free Zones at Berkeley Law School
A front-page New York Times news article frames an outbreak of antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley, as a free speech issue — for...

Netanyahu Hits Back Against New York Times Editorial: ‘Shamefully…Undermining Israel’s Elected Incoming Government’
The apparent incoming prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is hitting back against the New York Times. A Times staff editorial, representing the newspaper’s institutional voice,...

New York Times Escalates Its War on Yeshivas With New Focus on Children of Divorce
The New York Times is escalating its ongoing war against Jewish education, devoting a front-page article and two pages inside to the not-exactly-earthshattering news that...

Jewish Non-Readers Showing “Solidarity” With New York Times Labor Union, With Humor, Glee
Long-suffering Jewish readers and non-readers of New York Times are greeting the one-day walkout of 1,100 of the paper’s unionized staff with a classic Jewish...

New York Times ‘Editors’ Note’ Reels Back Gaza Fish Tale
It turns out that New York Times story blaming Israel for “devastating” Gaza’s fishing industry really was fishy. After a November 28 article in The Algemeiner...

In Article About Antisemitism, New York Times Skates Close Itself
This could be a new low: the New York Times actually itself flirts with antisemitic tropes in the course of reporting a front-page news article...

New York Times Gaza Fish Tale Has “Important Details Missing,” Israeli Army Says
The Israel Defense Forces and a media watchdog group are pushing back against a New York Times article blaming Israel for “devastating” Gaza’s fishing industry. “There...

Error-Prone New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Takes on an “Ultranationalist” Israeli Politician
The New York Times’ error-prone Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley, has decided to fill New York Times readers in on Israeli politician Bezalel Smotrich. In doing...

Where Are The Editors at The New York Times?
A problem consistently afflicting New York Times coverage of Israel and the Middle East generally is a lack of long-term perspective and historical context. A couple...

Tom Friedman Column Is So Wrong It’s Funny
So wrong it’s funny. That’s one way to to describe the latest column from Tom Friedman in the New York Times, which appears under the apocalyptic...

‘Whitewashing a Pogrom’: Jews Assail New York Times for New Failure in Crown Heights Riot Recap
Jewish leaders are condemning as inaccurate a New York Times article describing the 1991 Crown Heights riot as turning streets into “combat zones, pitting groups...

‘Bibi’ Offers Close-Up Look at Israeli Politician in Family Context
Every Jewish American home library should have at least two books by authors named Netanyahu. “Self-Portrait of a Hero,” the collection of letters by Jonathan Netanyahu,...