A new journalism fellowship focused on Judaism and Israel is trying hard, its director told JNS, to ensure that it brings a balanced set of political perspectives to its work. But thus far, it’s struggled to enlist the kind of volunteer mentors on the right that it has already secured on the left and in the center.

Rob Eshman, a senior columnist for the Forward and former top editor and publisher of the Jewish Journal in Los Angeles, serves as director of the Karsh Fellowship, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan, ideologically pluralistic space for journalists to immerse themselves in the study of core Jewish issues and to develop their own ideas.”

The fellowship currently lists 12 volunteer journalist mentors on its site. Eshman told JNS that organizers reached out to many more

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