 Under his influence, "Der Yid" was considered more sympathetic to Haredi Judaism than the other major Yiddish newspapers of the time.The first editor of "Der Yid" was the writer Uriel Zimmer, publisher of an anti-Zionist tract.In 1955, during a Satmar protest at Manhattan Center against the establishment of a night club in Jerusalem, the Krasna Rav, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, publicly tore up a copy of "Der Morgn-Zhurnal" as a sign of disapproval of its pro-Zionist stance.