Angered by what he sees as persistent bias against Israel in The New York Times' coverage of the 9-month-old intifada, Rabbi Haskell Lookstein of New York's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun is urging a limited ten-day boycott of the paper. Rabbi Lookstein has asked Jews to cancel their subscriptions and not buy the paper during the ten days from Rosh HaShanah until Yom Kippur (Sept. 18-27). This period is symbolic both for its "introspective" nature and in its marking the first anniversary of the beginning of the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault against Israel.

    Jonathan Mark writes in the Jewish Week that Rabbi Lookstein noted several glaring aspects of the Times' coverage of the current war and related items. These include the paper's "generous acceptance" of the Palestinian view of the situation (blaming Ariel Sharon's Temple Mount walk for the violence, (Even Imad Falouji of the PLO says that is not the reason for the violence) blaming the settlements for the crisis in spite of Israel's offer at Camp David, and creating a moral equivalence between the murdered Israelis and the Palestinians killed in the midst of attacking Israelis); a photograph of 30 anti-Israel protestors on the day of the Salute to Israel parade - and no photos at all of the over 100,000 pro-Israel participants; a "correction" of the report on the terrorist murder of Sarah Blaustein in which the paper wrote that she had "immigrated not to Israel but to the West Bank;" and more.

Reported by Arutz 7, Friday June 15, 2001