NEW YORK
Failed Messiah
The New York Sun, a web-only conservative New York City daily paper, plays politics with the lives of haredi children today by publishing what is perhaps the most idiotic editorial ever written about child sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s haredi community.
The New York Sun is a largely irrelevant, now web-only newspaper published by former Forward editor Seth Lipsky, sometimes with the help of the Forward’s former managing editor Ira Stoll. When the Sun had a print edition, both disgraced newspaper baron Conrad Black, best known in the Jewish end of the newspaper business for looting the Jerusalem Post, and conservative money man Roger Hertog were financial backers. It is unclear if they are now.
The Sun does not have a masthead on its site that I could find, so it’s hard to tell who’s really in charge thse days, although Lipsky’s company still appears to own it.
The unsigned editorial is published as the Sun’s opinion on the matter of haredi rabbis demanding to be the gatekeepers who decide which claims of child sex abuse get reported to police and which do not.
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