The NY Times and Reform Jews

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Excerpt from this day’s program:

…So in the Jewish village online, everyone is talking about the New York Times’ latest abomination: the printing of not one but two Nazi-like caricatures of Jews, specifically portraying the prime minister of Israel as a lowly dog or egomaniacal self-styled Moses.

Jews are outraged but should not be surprised. This newspaper, which was bought by a American German Reform Jew before the first Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897 and has been hostile to Zionist every day since then. The only thing new here is the lower than ever ugliness; Jews experienced Nazi-like flashes at these cartoons which is a step further down after decades of the sick crankiness against Israel of Little Tommy Friedman and Roger Cohen, in a class with Jews in centuries past who converted to Christianity and Islam and became the Jewish people’s worst tormenters…