Tuesday's Update, which included a story on continued anti-Israel bias on the New York Times editorial and op-ed pages, drew feedback from a range of readers.

One Jewish community member forwarded the Update to her extended family. "Attached is a very interesting article...on the New York Times' anti-Israel reporting, and the paper reporting inaccurate information as facts and omitting op-ed pieces supportive of Israel," she wrote to her family.

She noted that she and her husband, personally have written letters to the New York Times. "We have had our letters rejected, which I can understand, but when fact correction letters also come from congressmen, senators and other prominent individuals it is very troubling," she added.

Another reader, who is based in New York and who works for our national organization, Jewish Federations of North America, wrote, "When Israel appears on the Times' op-ed page, it is predictable that there will be an anti-Israel animus, and I don't bother reading it. Op-ed columnists Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman should only recognize how tedious and predictable their writing is."

Referring to Friedman's comment in a recent column that the standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got from the US Congress earlier this year "was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby," this reader wrote the following: "Thomas Friedman's comment is especially saddening and damaging, by his giving credence to the Israel lobby canard."

One of our Birmingham readers, a longtime Jewish community volunteer, put it more bluntly. "Thomas Friedman's hubris is starting to choke me," she wrote.

(In response to growing criticism, columnist Friedman this week said he wished he had used different words regarding Netanyahu's ovation. "In retrospect I probably should have used a more precise term like 'engineered' by the Israel lobby -- a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories that I don't subscribe to," Friedman told the New York Jewish Week.)

One of our politically conservative Christian donors, who just got back from his first visit to Israel, offered this: "There is a direct correlation between the Times support of liberal ideology and criticism of Israel. The paper loves Obama and hates Israel."

And a nice last word on Update's coverage of the issue came from none other than Ron Dermer, a top Netanyahu aide, who was the one who openly criticized the Times on the prime minister's behalf. Our story had noted that Dermer himself is a BJF Update reader.