Opinion
Laborers work at a construction site. in the Israeli settlement of Ramat Givat Zeev, in the West Bank, Nov. 19, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad / File.
Last month, in one of his debut articles as
New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Patrick Kingsley focused on Israel’s distribution of coronavirus vaccines. But his seemingly obsessive repetition of references to Israel’s “occupied territories” made me wonder whether the
Times holds anti-Israel indoctrination sessions for reporters who cover the Jewish state. I was, however, prepared to make an allowance for a
Times newcomer who might not yet have been indoctrinated into his newspaper’s politically correct reporting guidelines.
Purim in Hebron. 2018.
Hebron has the unique distinction of being one of the few cities in the world that celebrates Purim on two days. Jewish communities in walled cities celebrate Purim a day later. This is deriving from the verses in the Scroll of Esther which state, that in the city of Shushan, where the Purim story took place, the holiday was celebrated on the 15th of Adar rather then the 14th like the rest of the Jewish world.
Such is the case with Jerusalem where walls still surround the Old City. However what if there is a doubt about whether or not a city was surrounded by a wall? Those cities, Hebron being one of them, celebrate for two days, and thus have four total readings of the megillah.
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In a change that is unlikely to change anything at The New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. its publisher between 1992 and 2017, and chairman thereafter announced his retirement in his newspaper on New Year’s Day. Predictably, he will be succeeded by his son, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, extending the family dynasty five generations back to 1935 when Arthur Hays Sulzberger succeeded his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, who had purchased the newspaper in 1896 and proclaimed its enduring pledge: “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”