Orthodox Jewish Paper Photoshops Female Ministers Out Of New Israeli Cabinet
Orthodox Jewish Paper Removes Female Ministers From Israeli Cabinet But Commits Glaring Photoshop Fail
Sara C Nelson— Huffington Post UK
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When Israel’s newly-sworn in government posed for its first group photograph, you would have been forgiven for assuming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heading up an all-male cabinet.
Yet despite appearances in some sections of the Orthodox Jewish press, there are in fact three women in the cabinet.
But Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev and Minister of Senior Citizens Gila Gamliel were strangely absent from several publications.
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Benjamin Netanyahu was photographed with his new cabinet this week
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This is how the same picture appeared on the front of Yomleyom. Spot the disembodied ankles
Having said that, it was later noticed that Gila Gamliel’s ankles did made the final cut – for weekly newspaper Yomleyom - NBC notes.
Some Israeli ultra-Orthodox papers don’t ever show pictures of women. Some won’t even print their names.
B’Hadrei Haredim blotted out the faces of the three women, in line ultra-Orthodox views on modesty.
French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders march silently in Paris
Merkel had been photographed in a solidarity march in Paris, attended by dozens of world leaders for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
It was not the first time the policy of no female faces has included the elimination of world leaders, even to the detriment of the sense of the story. Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish weekly Di Tzeitung, erased the then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a photo of President Barack Obama and his staff watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Barack Obama's team, including Hilary Clinton, watch the raid on Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room in Washington
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And... she's gone!
And in lesser news, in April Kim Kardashian was cut out of a photograph of herself and her husband meeting Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barakat.
Some websites blurred Kardashian out of the shot, while others simply overlaid a receipt on her.
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10 Righteous Jewish Women
Beruriah (Second-century Palestine)(01 of10)
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The only woman in the Talmud who is both a teacher and a source of Jewish law. (credit:HebrewBooks.org)
Glückel of Hameln (1645-1724)(02 of10)
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Wrote a memoir of Jewish life in Central Europe covering the second half of the 17th and early 18th Centuries. Her book is an important description of what Jewish life was like at that time. (credit:MediaWiki)
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945)(03 of10)
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Founded Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and was a founder of Youth Aliyah which located 30,000 children and brought them safely to Palestine. She was a major intellect whose work with Louis Ginsburg on his Legends of the Jews was never acknowledged in her lifetime. She was the first female student at the Jewish Theological Institute, admitted only after she agreed not to seek accreditation for her academic work. (credit:MediaWiki)
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)(04 of10)
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Known as the "Angel of Henry Street" she created the Henry Street Settlement House in New York's Lower East Side. She was a giant in public health and social work. (credit:MediaWiki)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)(05 of10)
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An anarchist, pacifist and advocate for the rights of workers and of women. (credit:MediaWiki)
Golda Meir (1898-1978)(06 of10)
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Prime Minister of Israel from 1969-1974 (credit:MediaWiki)
Rabbi Regina Jonas (1902-1944)(07 of10)
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The first woman rabbi. Ordained at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin in 1935, she was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944. Her story was essentially unknown until after the fall of the Berlin Wall when East German Archives became available. (credit:MediaWiki)
Betty Friedan (1921-2006)(08 of10)
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Author of the game changing book "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963 which changed the way or culture looks at women and the way women look at themselves. She was a founder of NOW (National Organization of Women) and the National Women's Political Caucus. Her other important books include The Second Stage and Fountain of Age, Betty was a force of nature and I am grateful to acknowledge her as a personal friend and mentor. I really miss her! (credit:MediaWiki)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933- )(09 of10)
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The first Jewish woman and only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. (credit:MediaWiki)
Barbra Streisand (1942- )(10 of10)
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Perhaps the most famous Jewish entertainer -- not only the top selling female recording artist, but also an actor and director. I was privileged to be one of her teachers and a consultant on the film "Yentl." The moment in the film when Yentl first puts on a tallit still makes me shiver -- Barbra got it so right! I was both moved and impressed to discover how important Jewish tradition and Jewish learning is to her. And I am in awe of the difference she has made in our world through her support of progressive causes.(Photo: Publicity photo of Barbra Streisand from her first television special "My Name is Barbra.") (credit:MediaWiki)