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An Orthodox Jewish advocacy organization praised those who pushed back against reporting from the New York Times after the paper was not awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Jewish community and yeshiva schools.
KnowUs, a campaign of the umbrella group Agudath Israel, urged the Pulitzer Board ahead of their annual awards on Monday to avoid awarding the New York Times for what they described as the paper’s biased reporting about the Jewish community and specifically Jewish boys’ schools, or yeshivas.
“Respected intellectuals, secular Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, and numerous national and state elected officials deserve specific appreciation for going on record, standing up for the Orthodox Jewish community, and fending off hateful invectives artfully posing as ‘constructive’ criticism,” KnowUs director Avrohom Weinstock said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“Such actions, and such people, give KnowUs and the Orthodox Jewish community hope for a more transparent, tolerant, and respectful tomorrow,” he added.
ORTHODOX GROUP ASKS PULITZER BOARD NOT TO AWARD NY TIMES OVER ‘RELENTLESS’ BIAS AGAINST JEWISH SCHOOLS
The New York Times and Washington Post shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for their reporting into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
The KnowUs campaign began earlier this year in response to a series of investigative stories by the Times about yeshivas and the Hasidic Jewish community associated with Orthodox Judaism.
The articles claimed some yeshivas faced poor standardized test scores and suggested students received inadequate secular education despite significant public funding, which the paper claimed leaves graduates “unprepared to navigate the outside world” and prone to “end up addicted to drugs and alcohol.”
NEW YORK TIMES FACES BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN FROM ORTHODOX JEWISH GROUP OVER ‘CRUSADE’ AGAINST SCHOOLS
KnowUs.org billboard outside the headquarters…
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