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A Positive Holiday Statement On Chinese/Jewish Relations

Julie GersteinDecember 25, 2011 //
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Wherever your Chinese restaurant may be, please know that the Chinese Restaurant Association of America (if that in fact exists) supports your consumptions of Chinese food on Christmas. [Happy Place]

Today’s Lady News: Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Explains Airbrushing Women From Situation Room Pic

Jessica WakemanMay 10, 2011 //
  • The conservative Hasidic Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn that removed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and counterterrorism analyst Audrey Tomason — the only two women in the iconic Situation Room photo of the President watching the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound — has released a statement. Der Zeitung writes:

    “Our editorial policies are guided by a Rabbinical Board and because of laws of modesty, does not allow for the publishing of photos of women. The readership of the Tzeitung 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.”

    You can read the rest of the statement — which apologizes more for altering the White House’s official photograph, which is against policy, than it does for Photoshopping all the women out of the photograph — on the newspaper’s web site. [Der Zeitung]

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Hasidic Newspaper Edits Hillary Clinton Out Of Famous Bin Laden Situation Room Photo

Jessica WakemanMay 9, 2011 //

Remember that iconic photo of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the White House Situation Room watching the raid in Pakistan which killed Osama bin Laden? (Top photo!) Well, a conservative Hasidic Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn for Hasids completely edited Hillary Clinton and the other woman in the Situation Room out of the photo. (See bottom photo!) They’re gone entirely! It’s a Situation Room full of dudes.

In Hasidic culture, unrelated men and women do not socialize with each other; in some communities, men and women don’t even work alongside each other. Some say Hillary Clinton and counterterrorism analyst Audrey Tomasen were Photoshopped out because the Hasids didn’t want to depict women in positions of authority or because the women mixing with men with whom they are not related is sexually suggestive. (Hillary’s pantsuits are so sexually suggestive.) The newspaper, Der Zeitung, has not commented on to why they erased the women from the pics. But who cares what their reason is? Erasing two women from a moment that will go down in the history books — that they experienced — is sexism, plain and simple.

[Salon]
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Why Is Patricia Field From “Sex And The City” Sticking Up For Anti-Semite John Galliano?

Jessica WakemanMarch 2, 2011 //

UPDATE: John Galliano has released a statement in which he apologizes, says “I must face up to my own failures” and announces he is headed to rehab. Read the full statement here.

Sometimes I make the mistake of thinking people in creative, free-thinking professions like writing or fashion design have progressive views to back them up. My mistake. Designer John Galliano was arrested last week and fired from Dior yesterday after video tape surfaced of him slurring at patrons in a Paris café, “I love Hitler. … People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.” Indefensible, right? But bizarrely, fashion designer Patricia Field from “Sex and the City,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” and “Confessions Of A Shopaholic,” has come to his defense. Keep reading »

Quickies: Dior’s John Galliano Caught On Tape Saying “I Love Hitler” & A Pregnancy Pact?

Jessica WakemanFebruary 28, 2011 //
  • A video has been released of suspended Dior designer John Galliano slurring at patrons in a Parisian café with an anti-Semitic rant. Galliano can be heard saying “I love Hitler” and “People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.” He also calls them “ugly.” (It’s unclear if this video is from the incident last week that led to Dior’s suspension of Galliano, or if it was filmed on a separate occasion.) Ugh, just throw him in the pokey with Mel Gibson. [Styleite]
  • Poor, poor Bielibers: Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were photographed kissing in one of those old-timey photo boots at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. [Celebuzz]
  • MTV star Abram Boise from “Road Rules: South Pacific” was arrested in Massachusetts this weekend for peeing in public … and then pooped on his hands and wiped them on the walls of his jail cell. Get it together, Abram. Not even Ronnie from “Jersey Shore” would do that. [TMZ]

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You’ve Heard Of MILFs, Now Meet A “JILF”

Leonora EpsteinFebruary 9, 2010 //

Your momma wants you to find a nice Jewish boy? That’s great in theory, but what about a nice Jewish boy whose bones you also want to jump? Attitude magazine proves in this mildly offensive fashion spread that there are dudes of the Jewish persuasion with total mojo, and they’re called JILFs. (You know what that stands for.) Says stylist Elauan Lee, “This is one fashion story that knows how to put the sin into synagogue. Oy Vey!” Just take our advice, and don’t bring these guys home for Shabbat dinner. Check out some more pics after the jump. [Fashion Indie]

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What If Disney Made A Jewish Princess?

Ami AngelowiczDecember 15, 2009 //


I should be offended by this, but I am laughing too hard. This Babelgum video is a parody of the “making of” a fictional Disney movie, “Rachel and the Dragon.” The film features Disney’s first ever-Jewish American Princess, Rachel, played by Sarah Silverman. Her supporting cast? All members of the tribe, of course. Seth Rogen as Prince Joshua, Fran Drescher as the Fairy God-Yenta, and Larry David and Mel Brooks as her minature yorkies, Dolce and Gabbana. Who will play the dragon? I vote for Ben Stiller. After the watching the video, I kind of think this would make an amazing animated film and, of course, do wonders to dispel the myth that Disney is anti-Semetic. [BuzzFeed] Keep reading »