Newspaper Der Zeitung deletes Hillary Clinton from the iconic White House Situation Room picture!

BrooklynYiddish newspaper Der Zeitung deletes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Director of Counterterrorism Audrey Tomason fom the White House Situation Room photograph snapped during capture of Osama Bin Laden.

Der Zeitung, a Hasidic newspaper based in Brooklyn, NY, tried to rewrite American history when it edited Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason, the director for counterterrorism, who works with the Security Council, out of a Situation Room photograph with President Barack Obama and other national security leaders. The photograph played a pivotal role in our history, the moments leading up to the capture and assassination of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks mastermind, Osama Bin Laden, and the best Der Zeitung could do was show how sexist it is.

The newspaper editors had no comment, but many conjecture that it was either because of concerns about immodesty, or strong feelings that women should not be in position of power.

Silly, because H. Clinton wasn't dress immodestly and no intent of objectification in the photo.

The Hasidic newspaper forgot that this is the 21th century and women in the picture are part of an historic moment.

UPDATE:

Orthodox Jewish newspaper apologised for digitally deleting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a photograph of President Barack Obama and his staff watching Navy SEALs move in on Osama bin Laden.
The Brooklyn weekly Der Zeitung, which says it does not publish images of women, printed the doctored photo on Friday
It issued a statement saying its photo editor had not read the "fine print" accompanying the White House photo that forbade any changes.
Der Zeitung said it has a "long-standing editorial policy" of not publishing women's images.
It explained that its readers "believe that women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like, and the Jewish laws of modesty are an expression of respect for women, not the opposite".
The weekly said Mrs Clinton, a Democrat who represented New York as a US senator, had won overwhelming majorities in the Orthodox Jewish communities because they "appreciated her unique capabilities, talents and compassion for all".
Der Zeitung, published in Yiddish, is sold at city newsstands, especially in Brooklyn's Williamsburg and Borough Hall neighbourhoods, which have many Orthodox Jewish residents. It acknowledged it "should not have published the altered picture".
An editor at a Manhattan weekly that has covered Jewish issues since the 1890s addressed why the Brooklyn newspaper might have altered the image.
The Forward's managing editor, Lil Swanson, said that removing women from photos is "in keeping with" the belief of some ultra-Orthodox Jews that showing images of the female form is "immodest".


Not good enough. It is offensive. You can’t just remove women from a major moment in history with a click of the mouse and then attempt to justify it with a some BS about modesty. We are proud of powerful women in positions of leadership. We are proud of the hard work they do and we are proud that some women have managed, despite misogyny and discrimination in the name of religion, to reach positions of power and respect. We understand that women are more than merely tempting, baby-making sex objects. We also realize that women might actually want to read newspapers and news sources and look at photos with other women in them and if young women see other women making history, those young women might follow the same path