Despite its outwardly static and traditional appearance, the Israeli Haredi world is engaged in a constant cultural dialog with modernity. This dialog, part of which the following study will survey, is exceptionally visible in the realm of communications, the conduit used by the Haredi leadership to inform its rank and file of dictates or decisions. 1 By observing the communication that takes place through the medium of Haredi journals, newspapers, and other periodical literature, in particular, those of the Habad-Lubavitch and Gur Hasidim, the Lithuanian Mitnagdim and the Sefaradi Haredim of Shas, it is possible to observe cultural activity that results in acculturation with the broader Israeli society, whether secular or religious. This is largely so, because Haredi movements are organized from a pinnacle downward, the pinnacle being the da’at Torah, the unchallengeable theoretical-theological religious wisdom regarding a specific issue as it is expounded by a given movement’s undisputed religious (and often political, too) leader. 2 However, officially or unofficially, directly or indirectly, Haredi periodical literature conveys this wisdom to followers, 3 if only because official publications derive their legitimacy from the approval, the transmission of da’at Torah, as it is expressed by a movement’s chief rabbinical authority. This approval extends even to policies concerning language, sometimes embracing the very choice of words. When the source of approval is blurred (such as in the case of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s death or the Mitnagid R. Shakh’s incapacitation) existing linguistic policies normally continue. Yet, the vacuum of leadership, however partial, may gradually blur these policies, as well as a publication’s orientation. In the case of the Gerrer Hasidism, linguistic change in the movement’s publications responded to the new leader’s policies and linguistic style. ∗ This article is based on a chapter of a dissertation entitled “Language Policies of Ethnic Minorities as Influenced by Social, Economic, Religious and Political Constraints: An Examination of Israeli Haredim” that is being written at the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University under the guidance of Prof. Bernard (Dov) Spolsky and Prof. Joel Walters.