Odd, one might think, for a Jewish person, but I consider it a source of personal pride to serve as proprietor of the newspaper that, in 1897, made the most famous case for the existence of Santa Claus that has ever been made. So compelling was the case that the affirmative words that open the editorial’s second paragraph, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” might just be the best known sentence in the history of journalism.