We have yet another triumph of Orthodoxy in the removal of all female cabinet members from an official picture with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There are three new female cabinet members — Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Culture Minister Miri Regev and Minister for Senior Citizens Gila Gamliel — but you would never know it from the pictures in Jewish ultra-Orthodox publications which either removed them or even replaced them in the shot with male cabinet members.
One publication appears to have pixelated the faces of the women while others edited them out. You will recall recently how such publications removed the image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ironically, ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox parties were allies of Netanyahu in the recent election, but balked at showing his full cabinet team. In airbrushing away of the new Justice Minister and first-ever minister of gender equality (Gamliel) completed the overwhelming irony.
Many Orthodox publications simply refused to publish the picture due to the inclusion of the women.
Yomleyom, an ultra-Orthodox weekly newspaper run by the Shas political party, actually transplanted a man in the place of one of the women. Yomleyom’s deputy editor, Rabbi Moshe Shafir, did not see anything ridiculous in the exercise and explained “We honor the women specifically because of their special merits and we have reservation from looking upon women as an object.” In other words, we value them so much that we delete them from historic photos and government images. Call it elevation through elimination.
Source: NBC
and shulte….i don’t think giving me queer cmv after one tdy and hsv after another is ‘Protecting’ me….call it dbids call it q codes…..military brides are getting screwed…..effectively erased….pixelated nonetheless.
fading fast…..except issac.it is women who give men children. They may have figured out how to make sperm from a teste biopse….but women have the eggs and womb….and we haven’t cracked that nut yet. So if a people….for their posterity sake decides to protect their maker of their next generation……that is honor. Self defense actually.
David
So, the status quo has never been: male dominated society/wives obeying their husbands, religious sanctioned rulers, religious backed social structure, slaves as ordained in the bible, etc? David the residue of this sort of archaic lifestyle is what is wrong with the Middle East, Orthodox Judaism, Extreme Catholicism, etc. Just because these perverse practices have been going on for a long time and can be explained doesn’t make them right. The proof of the fact that they are not right is that they are diminishing daily. You live in a country where they are fading fast, thank goodness.
That quote was supposed to say, “Your position is…”
I did not do that on purpose. 🙂
This is why religion needs to die a complete death.
David
“Some see that associated with this change are higher divorce rates and the breakdown of the family. The sluggish economy and difficulty in businesses being able to hire people also are blamed on the changes that you think are good.”
Your position is the one that defended slavery, male chauvinism, social elitism, the divine right of kings, etc. It is the position of one who is afraid to evolve and go forward. Read history less selectively and you will find that with the good comes some bad but overall the world’s peoples are evolving to an ideal closer to what most religions expound, all except those that pervert those ideals.
One can view today a living panorama that ranges from religious extremism to freedom from religion. The most advanced and stable countries, the ones with the highest standards of living are those primarily free from religious dominance. The ever-present phenomenon in these countries is the allowance for diverse religions to practice their beliefs, but not to supersede civil law.
If you interpret the elimination of photos of female government leaders as respect, then I have this bridge in Brooklyn I want you to consider buying.
issac wrote: “our position is the one that defended slavery, male chauvinism, social elitism, the divine right of kings, etc.”
You are grossly mistaken in your history. Bad data in; bad results out.