Shopped Out

The Yiddish-language Ultra-Orthodox daily Der Tzitung apparently felt that their policy of keeping photos of women out of their publication (for fear of sexually exciting Hasidic men) took precedence over the presence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the iconic SitRoom photo because they shopped her right out of her seat.

Rabbi Jason Miller @ Jewish Week points out that, in doing so, Der Tzitung may have violated the Jewish legal principle of g’neivat da’at (deceit), but, irrespective of which tenets of faith may or may not have been harmed, the revisionism certainly violates the retouching restriction on the White House Flickr page which stipulates that photographs “may not be manipulated in any way.”

That's just not very Kosher.