Faith has outweighed fact at Di Tzeitung, a Hasidic newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York.
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic “Situation Room Photo” last Friday – you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.
Scrubbed from the picture: the two women in the room.
It’s as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her hand clasped over her mouth, and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism, weren’t there and weren’t part of history.
The newspaper later apologized for violating White House instructions against altering photos…
…A former ultra-Orthodox Jew, Rosenberg has been writing about the ultra-Orthodox community – mostly about crime and what he dubbed “strange media” – for seven years. He said the newspapers in that community have become “increasingly strange with their censorship of women’s faces and women’s bodies” over the past few years.