jewish newspaper apologizes for erasing women from white house photo

[niyad]

(modesty, or pure misogyny?)

Jewish Newspaper Apologizes from Erasing Women from White House Photo

Di Tzeitung, an Orthodox Jewish newspaper based in Brooklyn, released a statement yesterday to apologize for deleting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason from a photograph of President Obama and the national security team in the White House Situation Room during the capture of Osama bin Laden. Di Tzeitung stated that it does not publish pictures of women, in accordance with its editorial policy, but apologized for violating a White House policy that prohibits alterations to the pictures.

Robin Bodner, executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, told CNN, "This picture by newspaper goes a step further by revising history to remove important women leaders from the historic room in which they were present. It reminds us of how much work is still to be done!"

Di Tzeitung stated, "Because we wanted to honor the President and our armed forces for the historical significance of the moment, we opted to publish the photo, but without the women included, as is our long standing editorial policy. Our editorial policies are guided by a Rabbinical Board and because of laws of modesty, does not allow for the publishing of photos of women."

http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=13000

[Nevernose]

1. I wonder what their subscription base is like?

I can picture it now: "Our suscription base? Oh, he's over there."

[niyad]

2. that would be one too many, methinks

[TheMadMonk]

4. This is the mob that got bike lanes removed from their neighbourhood,...

...because they were offended by women in bike shorts.

The answer to your question is too high. WAAY too high.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Enough actually

meet religious fundies in the Jewish community.

And they are growing.

[seabeyond]

3. they can come up with whatever excuse they want to justify. it is pure misogyny. nt

[Bluebear]

5. Anne Frank photo, always poignant:

[Merlot]

6. If they really wanted to "honor the President and our armed forces"

they could have cropped the photo to just Obama & Biden perhaps. But removing someone from the picture is re-writing history.

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[jp11]

9. Not much of an apology.

[defendandprotect]

10. What garbage -- but how deep in denial are they -- ??? Well, the Jewish feminists, I presume ....

could tell us -- !!!

stated that it does not publish pictures of women, in accordance with its editorial policy

-- and, how, might pictures of women be "immodest" if pictures of males are not

"immodest" -- ???

[niyad]

11. they probably don't even let the jewish feminists subscribe--assuming any of them would want to.