{"id":634,"date":"2007-08-03T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:43:24","slug":"the-protocols-of-noah-feldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"The Protocols of Noah Feldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seraphicpress.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_protocols_o.php\">Robert J. Avrech writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Noah Feldman&#8217;s recent attack on Modern Orthodox Judaism was built on a platform of half-truths, and cherry-picked scholarship designed to place halacha, Jewish law, in the worst light possible. As we pointed out, the motivation for the article was a personal bitter experience.<\/p>\n<p>But as it turns out, Noah Feldman was lying about this experience. Not only did he lie, but the New York Times knew that he was lying &mdash; and went with the story anyway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seraphicpress.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/post_86.php\"><br \/>\nWe observed that in writing this unfair attack in Torah Judaism Feldman was acting as judge, jury and executioner;<\/a> some said we were too harsh, that our remarks were unwarranted ad-hominem attacks. We also accused the New York Times of Jew-hatred for they refused to run the Muhammed cartoons &quot;out of respect for Islam&quot; yet they ran Feldman&#8217;s outrageous attack against Orthodox Judaism with no counter argument to balance out Feldman&#8217;s venemous and untruthful screed.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that our remarks were not only precise &mdash; but far too generous.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Feldman and his non-Jewish girlfriend were <em>not <\/em>cropped out of his class photo as he so self-righteously claimed in The New York Times Magazine. Feldman knew it before the article went for publication, and so did the editors of the New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with Avrech&#8217;s writing is that I never know where he stands on an issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Avrech writes: Noah Feldman&#8217;s recent attack on Modern Orthodox Judaism was built on a platform of half-truths, and cherry-picked scholarship designed to place halacha, Jewish law, in the worst light possible. 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