The permit to publish "Moriah", which was also the name of the printing house that produced the newspaper (owned by Weiss and his partner, Rabbi Moshe Samuel Schinbaum), was granted by the Ottoman authorities, after they were assured they would abide by the Ottoman law.

[1] The newspaper's chief editor, throughout all its years of publication, was Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin, who also wrote a significant portion of its articles.

Together with Weiss, Yellin made it a goal for the newspaper to reform the "Old Yishuv" and its public conduct.

[1] Right from the first issue, the founders expressed their intent of addressing the Haredi Jews in a manner representing free speech and objectivity.

[2] The newspaper was shut down by the Ottoman authorities on 11 January, 1915 (כ"ה בטבת תרע"ה),[1] at the height of the First World War, after Yellin breached the order to refrain from dealing with political matters.