Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
New York Times Blames Trump for Democrats’ Threats to Israel Aid
Democrats are talking about threatening to cut aid to Israel, and the New York Times manages to find a way to blame not the Democrats,...
‘New Hope’ in Fight Against Tay-Sachs Disease
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are touting a possible breakthrough in the fight against Tay-Sachs disease, a genetic disease that killed 50...
Severe Storm Flattens Sukkahs From New Jersey to Boston
A fierce wind and rainstorm wreaked havoc on sukkahs from New Jersey to Boston, leaving a path of destruction that had Jews rescheduling holiday events...
New York Times Readers Offer Vicious Responses to Articles by Israelis
In at least two recent cases, articles in The New York Times by Israeli authors were greeted by responses from Times readers who insisted that...
President Trump, Democratic Frontrunner Biden Mark Rosh Hashanah With Messages to Jewish Community
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden marked the impending Jewish New Year with a fundraiser at which he emphasized Holocaust-related themes and described his father as...
New York Times Iran Story Relies on Analyst Tied to BDS-Backing Rockefeller Fund
A recent New York Times article about Iran quotes a bunch of government officials -- and also someone who works at a small, little-known nonprofit...
A BDS Defeat The New York Times Found Not Fit to Print
Some of the most telling stories are the ones The New York Times doesn’t print. In that category falls the recent decision of a section of...
New York Times Jerusalem Cable Car Story Sparks a Furor
A front-page New York Times article by the newspaper’s architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, attacking a plan for a cable car in Jerusalem, is generating a...
Former Obama Speechwriter Offers Answers to ‘Why Be Jewish?’ Question in New Book
Why be Jewish? Nowadays, embracing Jewish identity and practice is optional, even for those who were born into it. Sarah Hurwitz’s own story is an example....
New York Times Issues a Bizarre BDS-Related Correction
The New York Times has issued a bizarre correction to an article about the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The correction, published on Aug....
Ex-ADL Chief Defends Bret Stephens in Bedbug Brouhaha
A veteran arbiter of antisemitism says New York Times columnist Bret Stephens was not overreacting when he objected to being likened to a “bedbug” by...
Longtime American Jewish Leader, Lawyer Kenneth Bialkin, Is Mourned
When I was working with a few partners and potential investors nearly 20 years ago on a plan for what became The New York Sun,...
Why Is New York Times Still Surprised When AIPAC Breaks With Netanyahu?
How many times does the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) need to break publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before The New York...
Paul Krugman Jew-Shames Stephen Ross
A Paul Krugman column in The New York Times makes an issue of the Jewish background of Stephen Ross, the real-estate executive and fitness-business investor...
IDF Massing Ground Forces on Gaza Border Amid Concerns Over Possible Terrorist Infiltration Attempts
Appropriation of Nazi-Era ‘Yellow Star’ at Paris Demonstration Against Islamophobia Outrages French Jews
For UNRWA, the Party’s Over
Eight-Year-Old Israeli Girl Collapses, Stops Breathing During Rocket Attack on Central Israeli City
Israel Pounded With Rockets From Gaza After Killing of Islamic Jihad Commander