Editing Haredi Judaism (section)

=== Newspapers and publications ===
[[File:Tziporah Heller.jpg|thumb|[[Tziporah Heller]], a weekly columnist for ''[[Hamodia]]'']]
In 1930s Poland, the Agudath Israel movement published its own Yiddish-language paper, ''Dos Yiddishe Tagblatt''. In 1950, the Agudah started printing ''[[Hamodia]]'', a Hebrew-language Israeli daily.

Haredi publications tend to shield their readership from objectionable material,<ref>{{harvnb|Bryant|2012}}: "Haredi press rarely reports on deviance and unconventionality among Haredim. Thus, most reports are based on the secular Press. This is consistent with Haredi press policy of 'the right of the people not to know', which aims to shield Haredi readers from exposure to information about such issues as rape, robbery, suicide, prostitution, and so on."</ref> and perceive themselves as a "[[counterculture]]", desisting from advertising secular entertainment and events.<ref name="Simon1978"/> The editorial policy of a Haredi newspaper is determined by a rabbinical board, and every edition is checked by a rabbinical [[Censorship|censor]].<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|2012|p=79}}</ref> A strict policy of modesty is characteristic of the Haredi press in recent years, and pictures of women are usually not printed.<ref name=Cohen80>{{harvnb|Cohen|2012|p=80}}</ref> In 2009, the Israeli daily ''[[Yated Ne'eman (Israel)|Yated Ne'eman]]'' doctored an Israeli cabinet photograph replacing two female ministers with images of men,<ref>{{cite web |title=Papers alter Israel cabinet photo |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7982146.stm |access-date=7 August 2013 |website=[[BBC]] |date=April 3, 2009}}</ref> and in 2013, the ''Bakehilah'' magazine pixelated the faces of women appearing in a [[:File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06b.jpg|photograph]] of the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]].<ref>{{harvnb|Tessler|2013}}</ref> The mainstream Haredi political Shas party also refrains from publishing female images.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4239618,00.html |title=ynet ביטאון ש"ס צנזר את תמונת רחל אטיאס - יהדות |newspaper=Ynet |date=7 June 2012 |publisher=Ynet.co.il |access-date=2014-03-11 |last1=נחשוני |first1=קובי }}</ref> Among Haredi publishers which have not adopted this policy is [[ArtScroll]], which does publish pictures of women in their books.<ref>Rabbi Avrohom Biderman in minute 53-54 of [https://web.archive.org/web/20200724040055/https://episodes.buzzsprout.com/rvcyx8fu7oq5zpzaxq4ayn71zdqb?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%27with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll.mp3%27%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll.mp3&response-content-type=audio%2Fmpeg& May 7, 2020 Twitter Live podcast] with [https://twitter.com/SeforimChatter/status/1264749263776632835 SeforimChatter]. Archived from [http://seforimchatter.buzzsprout.com/1218638/4567262-with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll|the original] on July 24, 2020.</ref>

No coverage is given to serious crime, violence, sex, or drugs, and little coverage is given to non-Orthodox streams of Judaism.<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|2012|p=93}}</ref> Inclusion of "immoral" content is avoided, and when publication of such stories is a necessity, they are often written ambiguously.<ref name=Cohen80/> The Haredi press generally takes an ambivalent stance towards Zionism and gives more coverage to issues that concern the Haredi community, such as the drafting of girls and yeshiva students into the army, autopsies, and Shabbat observance.<ref name="Simon1978"/> In Israel, it portrays the secular world as "spitefully anti-Semitic", and describes secular youth as "mindless, immoral, drugged, and unspeakably lewd".<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|Susser|2000|p=103}}: "The Haredi press, for its part, is every bit as belligerent and dismissive. [...] Apart from the recurrent images of drug-crazed, sybaritic, terminally empty-headed young people, the secular world is also portrayed as spitefully anti-Semitic."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|Susser|2000|p=102}}: "Yet when the Haredi newspapers present the world of secular Israeli youth as mindless, immoral, drugged, and unspeakably lewd..."</ref> Such attacks have led to Haredi editors being warned about libelous provocations.<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|Susser|2000|p=103}}</ref>

While the Haredi press is extensive and varied in Israel,<ref name="Simon1978">{{cite book|author=Rita James Simon|title=Continuity and Change: A Study of Two Ethnic Communities in Israel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbY8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA73|date=28 July 1978|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-29318-1|pages=73–74}}</ref> only around half the Haredi population reads newspapers. Around 10% read secular newspapers, while 40% do not read any newspaper at all.<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|2012|p=110}}</ref> According to a 2007 survey, 27% read the weekend Friday edition of ''Hamodia'', and 26% the ''Yated Ne'eman''.<ref name="Cohen 2012 111">{{harvnb|Cohen|2012|p=111}}</ref> In 2006, the most-read Haredi magazine in Israel was the ''[[Mishpacha]]'' weekly, which sold 110,000 copies.<ref name="Cohen 2012 111"/> Other popular Hareidi publications include [[Ami Magazine]] and The Flatbush Jewish Journal.