In a jammed media sphere littered with the crumbling shells of failed news sites, it’s hard to imagine a new one whose mission could really set it apart. Nevertheless, when Naftuli Moster, a former Hasid known for his tireless advocacy for improved secular education in the ultra-Orthodox community, asked me to help launch his new project, I jumped at the chance; I saw that contrary to King Solomon’s famous pronouncement, this was, after all, something new under the sun:
A Yiddish-language newspaper serving the Satmar Hasidic community also published a series of favorable articles about the former therapist, who is accused of sexually abusing an adolescent girl.