This one picture has gotten a lot of attention since news of it broke a few days ago. As of now, there are over 29,000 articles about it on Google news*, and it’s being covered by outlets as big as the New York Times, Slate, Daily News, Huffington Post, and Newsweek (where I was quoted). While I don’t agree with removing women from newspaper photos and while modestly dressed woman are allowed to be seen by men (according to Jewish law) – I am still troubled by how obsessed the world is with the goings-on of one tiny Hasidic newspaper. Two thousand people were massacred in Nigeria a few days before this photo was printed, but upon my search of Google news**, there are only 125,000 (4.3 times more) articles on this story than on said photo!! Read more: jewinthecity/2015/01/why-did-a-hasidic-paper-photoshop-women-out-of-pic/#ixzz3Or79BsRc
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:06:31 +0000
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