Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Writers Want Women WhiteWashed

The recent controversy between the Jewish Weeklies whether to print pictures of women certainly should take their cues from the Agudath Israel magazine of record - The Jewish Observer Alav Hashalom.

The JO was published between 1963 and 2010, and was THE source for American Orthodox Hashkofo. Not only did the JO print pictures of women, and even on the front cover, but R Chaim Kanievsky recently wondered aloud why the book published on his Rebbitzen had so few pictures of her and so many of him.


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    1. Thanks. Now we have an additional reason to revive the JO

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  2. vehayu ainecha ro'os es MOROS

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  3. Maybe with the Agudah convention underway we can restart the conversation in how to get the JO revived. The current weeklies just don't cut it. An attempt was made with the Dialogue magazine, but with only 6 volumes in as many years, it just doesn't cut it.

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  4. If any magazine ever wants to have a tribute to me (I doubt that will ever happen, but still), they have two choices. Either they have to show at least one photo of me with my face clearly visible, or they have to have no photos or illustrations at all.

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  5. let the aguda atone for the vile sin of women's pictures by using the rmbm's mode of tshuva- advocate and follow the extreme other extreme

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    1. This is not the Aguda's sin. Their publication printed pictures of women.

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  6. Are you aware that many back issues of the JO are now online at an Agudah affiliated website?

    See e.g. http://ourlli.org/news/page/130/

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    1. No, I wasn't, but bless you for notifying me, and bless whomever put these issues online. Now if only we can get the Agudah to start publishing the JO again.

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