“If there is an archetypical Jewish New Yorker, that person might be found on the Upper West Side, somewhere between Zabar’s and Barney Greengrass,” the Times article, by Dana Rubinstein, declares. It’s a strange hook upon which to hang a New York Times article, though perhaps it does illustrate the insecurity of the people complaining, who represent a demographically diminishing share of the New York Jewish population. “Something is deeply wrong at the New York Times,” tweeted Seth Mandel, an editor at the Washington Examiner. If there is “an archetypical Jewish New Yorker,” at least for the New York Times, it’s not actually some Upper West Sider. Instead, it’s the Park Slope Reform rabbi complaining that she was left off the council that a real Upper West Sider was put on.

Source: New York Times July 07, 2023 23:28 UTC