Aside from the fact that they do not mention Otzar Beit Din at all, the NY Times does a pretty decent job of reporting on what is going on in Israel with disputes over heter mechirah and yivul nachri (non-Jewish owned and grown produce). They even manage to quote a few pesukim from Shemot, do not get any major halachic facts wrong, and have someone giving them an insider’s look into Hareidi politics (”The Ashkenazic chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, is considered a puppet of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, 97, the leader of Israel’s Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Jews and a renowned foe of heter mechira.”)
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