Mediaite.com:
In accordance with their religious beliefs, Orthodox Jewish news services frequently censor women from photos, a policy that tends to garner headlines: A New York paper was forced to apologize to the White House for removing Hillary Clinton from the famous Situation Room photo taken during Osama bin Laden’s assassination, and earlier this year, Israeli paper HaMevaser became the subject of international scrutiny after it erased Angela Merkel from a photo of the Charlie Hebdo march.RELATED: Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Baptize North West In Jerusalem
The industry’s apparent takeaway: They shouldn’t use Photoshop to censor the women, but more clever methods seem a-ok.
In a report about Kimye’s recent visit to Jerusalem, Israeli-based paper Kikar HaShabbat removed Kim Kardashian from an AP photo showing her and her husband, Kanye West, having dinner with Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat. Instead of Photoshop, they just covered her with a receipt, and then chided Barkat for eating with Kimye at a non-kosher restaurant:
According to the AP, another photograph simply blurred her out of a photo, and Kardashian was repeatedly not referred to by name, but as “West’s wife.”
Editor Nissim Ben Haim defended the website’s decision, saying that Kardashian was a “pornographic symbol” who goes against Orthodox values, which, we suppose, is true.
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