Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Monday used the Knesset podium to call on chareidim to enter the journalism profession. In an interview on Tuesday morning 27 Tammuz with Mordechai Lavi of Kol Chai Radio, she explained her late colleague Uri Orbach back in 1987 called on the dati leumi community to follow his lead and enter the journalism profession in Israel, citing the need to have more religious representation in the field.
She commented on remarks made by Shas leader Aryeh Deri, who stated chareidim face discrimination if they try to enter the field of journalism, but she feels this is not so.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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nonsense. there are plenty of chareidi newspapers, yated hamodia hamevaser hapeles and others.
Chilonim obviously don’t read them bc they don’t want to read a charedi’s viewpoint.
What Shaked wants is people who outwardly are charedim but inwardly share chiloni shitos whose writing will reflect that. Like all the blogs by “frum” people which seek to pull Yiddeshkeit down. This will appeal to chilonim and (Shaked hopes) will have bad influence on other charedim
It isn’t that there is a lack of Chareidi journalists, but that few secular Jews read Chareidi journalism. What she may mean is she wishes that some Chareidi journalists would work for non-Chareidi media, but that’s not likely given the cultural/social situation in Eretz Yisrael since the Israeli press highly politicized.