Reply #12: Israeli women fight back against Jerusalem billboard vandals [View All]

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Women in UK and US urged to send photographs of themselves to counter ultra-orthodox campaign against images of women

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"Jewish women in the Britain and the US are being urged to send photographs of themselves holding signs saying "women should be seen and heard" in a campaign against efforts by the ultra-orthodox to remove female images from advertising billboards in Jerusalem.

The New Israel Fund (NIF) is planning to compile the photographs into posters to display in Jerusalem.

Similar posters of Israeli women are being displayed by Yerushalmim, an organisation opposed to religious extremism and gender segregation which is funded by the NIF.

The appeal to British and American Jewish women is to show "this struggle is not just waged by the women of Jerusalem alone. It is the struggle of people of conscience everywhere", says the NIF.

Its appeal follows pressure from extremist ultra-orthodox, or Haredi, Jews on advertisers to remove images of women.

Among the companies which have complied is the Israeli fashion brand Honigman, which cropped a female model's head from its Jerusalem poster displays. Billboards which continue to show images of women have been vandalised."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/02/jerusalem-ultra-orthodox-billboard-vandals?newsfeed=true