New York Times corrects family detail in report on Jewish New Yorkers’ reactions to Gaza truce and hostage release

The New York Times has corrected a factual error in its October 18 feature, “Relief and Grief: What Jewish New Yorkers Feel After the Hostage Release,” after misidentifying which member of real estate executive Leon Goldenberg’s family was assaulted amid rising antisemitic incidents in New York.

The article originally stated that Mr. Goldenberg’s nephew had been attacked. In fact, the victim was his grandson. The correction was issued on October 21 and appended to both the web and mobile versions of the story.

The feature explored how Jewish New Yorkers have experienced complex emotions since the return of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza — balancing relief, sorrow, and deepening divisions over the war’s morality and its political reverberations at home. Mr. Goldenberg’s account illustrated fears among Orthodox Jews that open displays of faith, such as wearing yarmulkes, have made them more vulnerable to harassment and violence. Misidentifying the victim as a nephew rather than a grandson, while seemingly minor, misrepresented both the immediacy and personal gravity of that incident within his family narrative.

Such details carry weight in stories dealing with community trauma and intergenerational fear, where the line between political tension and lived experience can hinge on intimate family ties. The Times corrected the relationship to ensure accuracy in a piece that has already become part of a wider national conversation about antisemitism, identity, and belonging in post-war America.