“Religious media” is much like “religious university” – sort of oxymoron. The purpose of media in general and newspapers in particular is to convey information and opinions about the world around us. Religiously-oriented media and newspapers often convey information and opinions, but about another world.<\/p>\n
Want some examples? Sure you do. Here are some references to the world around us, quoted from some recent Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers:<\/p>\n
From ‘Family’, April 2013: “The heads of the regime … who desire to convert our religion, are worse than those who have murdered us along generations”<\/em>; and also: “A state is no more than a piece of cloth on a stick”<\/em>.<\/p>\n From ‘The Fountains of Salvations’, December 2012: “The modern heretic is he who applies scientific criteria to the research of our sages’ texts … We should dream of replacing the shitty intellectual clothes with sacred clothes”<\/em>.<\/p>\n From ‘Faithful Tent-Peg’, January 2013: “All residents should avoid entering stores whose owners use non-kosher cellular phones”<\/em>; and also, approaching the elections in Israel: “Many have not yet received the formal message to the voter. The Ministry of Interior directs citizens to the forbidden Internet”<\/em>.<\/p>\n And last but not least:<\/p>\n From ‘Y.N.R. Center of Marriage and Family Studies’, a guide to the wedding night: “Put a towel underneath. In case of a question it will be easier to bring in front of the rabbi”<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Religious media” is much like “religious university” – sort of oxymoron. The purpose of media in general and newspapers in particular is to convey information and opinions about the world around us. Religiously-oriented media and newspapers often convey information and opinions, but about another world. Want some examples? Sure you do. Here are some references […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,27,52,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-and-state","category-judaism","category-politics","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}