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Mar 3, 2013
Haredi paper publishes warning about protecting children from sexual abusers
If you live in Bet Shemesh and read the Haredi weekly newspaper Chadash, you might have been surprised to see page 2 in the English section.
Page 2, the inside of the back page, was an entire page of information of how to protect one's children from sexual predators. In a Haredi newspaper! The world is definitely changing. Slowly, but surely.
To me the page looked like an ad, rather than an article. But even if so (I asked Magen if they ran this as an ad, and the response I received was that they had not, had nothing to do with it, and had no knowledge of it), it was an ad that the newspaper accepted and published.
Unfortunately, I only found this page on the English side, and found no equivalent in the Hebrew section of the paper. Obviously it is not just English-speakers who need to be concerned about such things. Perhaps they were simply not "daring" enough to try to sneak it past their Hebrew censors, while maybe the English side has more leeway. Still, despite not being in Hebrew, a start is a start and for the first time they actually published something on this very serous issue!
Page 2, the inside of the back page, was an entire page of information of how to protect one's children from sexual predators. In a Haredi newspaper! The world is definitely changing. Slowly, but surely.
To me the page looked like an ad, rather than an article. But even if so (I asked Magen if they ran this as an ad, and the response I received was that they had not, had nothing to do with it, and had no knowledge of it), it was an ad that the newspaper accepted and published.
Unfortunately, I only found this page on the English side, and found no equivalent in the Hebrew section of the paper. Obviously it is not just English-speakers who need to be concerned about such things. Perhaps they were simply not "daring" enough to try to sneak it past their Hebrew censors, while maybe the English side has more leeway. Still, despite not being in Hebrew, a start is a start and for the first time they actually published something on this very serous issue!
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It's not the first time they've had this English/Hebrew split. During the Spitting Scandal of 2011, it looked like the newspaper was having an op-ed pro/anti debate, with the English side spitting venom against the extremists, while the Hebrew side was blaming all the problems on the secularists and Yair Lapid.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the publishers understand English at all...?
This ad included an instruction to ignore your rabbi if he tells you not to report allegations of child abuse to the police.
ReplyDeleteThe ad explains that "private rabbis" cannot be relied upon, as they may be looking to protect their institutions or have been bribed into sweeping the case under the rug.
This, and much of the other content, including explicit language, is radical for a Haredi newspaper to publish.
It is fair to assume that the censors at Chadash entirely missed this English-language ad/article.