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תוקן על ידי מנהל_ניק ב- 08/05/2011 22:48:13
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תוקן על ידי מנהל_ניק ב- 08/05/2011 22:48:13
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Der Tzeitung released the following statement today in response to the furor that has erupted regarding the altered photo:
The White House released a picture showing the President following ''live'' the events in the apprehension of Osama Bin Laden, last week Sunday. Also present in the Situation Room were various high-ranking government and military officials. Our photo editor realized the significance of this historic moment, and published the picture, but in his haste he did not read the ''fine print'' that accompanied the picture, forbidding any changes. We should not have published the altered picture, and we have conveyed our regrets and apologies to the White House and to the State Department.
The allegations that religious Jews denigrate women or do not respect women in public office, is a malicious slander and libel. The current Secretary of State, the Honorable Hillary R. Clinton, was a Senator representing New York State with great distinction 8 years. She won overwhelming majorities in the Orthodox Jewish communities in her initial campaign in '00, and when she was re-elected in '06, because the religious community appreciated her unique capabilities and compassion to all communities. The Jewish religion does not allow for discrimination based on gender, race, etc.
We respect all government officials. We even have special prayers for the welfare of our Government and the government leaders, and there is no mention of gender in such prayers.
All Government employees are sworn into office, promising adherence to the Constitution, and our Constitution attests to our greatness as a nation that is a light beacon to the entire world. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. That has precedence even to our cherished freedom of the press! In accord with our religious beliefs, we do not publish photos of women, which in no way relegates them to a lower status. Publishing a newspaper is a big responsibility, and our policies are guided by a Rabbinical Board. Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging to women, which is certainly never our intention. We apologize if this was seen as offensive.
We are proud Americans of the Jewish faith, and there is no conflict in that, and we will with the help of the Almighty continue as law-abiding citizens, in this great country of our's, until the ultimate redemption.
תוקן על ידי SatmarNews ב- 09/05/2011 23:41:45
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| The doctoring of the image is a complete outrage. | 14% | |
| This is a tiny community paper, it's really no big deal. | 43% | ![]() |
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א היימישע צייטונג וואס ערשיינט אין ניו יארק אין די אידישע שפראך, האט געדריקט פארגאנגענע וואך א בילד פון די פרעזידענט מיט זיין קאבינעט בשעת די אקציע אויף בין לאדין, וויבאלד אויף די בילד איז אויך געווען אנוועזנד די סעקרעטארשע אוו סטעיט, מרת קלינטאן, האט די צייטונג עס אויסגעמעקט, אזוי ווי עס איז די זעלבסט פארשטענדליכע סטאנדארט אלע יארן ביי ערליכע אויסגאבעס נישט צו דריקן קיין בילדער פון נשים אין אויסגאבעס וואס ווערן געליינט
דורך מענער.
ליידער איז עס אריינגעפאלן אין מויל פון א געמיינע אידישע בלאג, די אפגעטרינענע געמיינע נפשות האבן שוין א שמוציגע רעקארד פון כסדר העצן אויף אידן ווען אימער א איד פארפלאנטערט זיך מיטן געזעץ, עס ווערט ליידער מקוים היינטיגע צייטן די תוכחה ''ורדו בכם שנאיכם: בשעה שאעמיד עליכם מכם ובכם, הם מחפשים אחר המטמוניות שלכם''.
פון דארט איז עס געווארן אויפגעכאפט -מן הסתם צוליב די מאסיווע מידיע אינטערעסע אין די היסטארישע בין לאדין געשעניש- דורך צענדליגע ריזיגע צייטונגען און נייעס ארגענעזאציעס דאהי און אויסלאנד, וואס האבן עס אויסגעטייטשט א טייל מיט וואונדער און א טייל מיט אפשיי.
א מאדערנע ראביי א מה יפה'ניק, האט זיך צוגעשטעלט צום וואגן און געגעבן סטעיטמענטס פאר די פרעסע אז אויסמעקן א פערזאן פון א בילד איז אקעגן די אידישע פרינציפאל פון ''גניבת דעת''…
עס האט נישט צוגעהאלפן די פאקט אז די ווייסע הויז האט ארויסגעגעבן די בילד מיט דעם תנאי אז עס טאר נישט ווערן מאדעפיצירט אויף קיין שום אופן. וואס לויט דעם האט דאס בילד נישט געטארט געענדערט ווערן פון
דעם ארגינעלן אינהאלט.
אין א שמועס מיט א לעגאלע עקספערט אויף קאפירייט ענינים, האט ער אנגעוויזן אז עס וועט לכאורה נישט זיין קיין לעגאלע פראבלעמען וויבאלד די איינציגסטע וואס קענען עס פארסירן איז די ווייסע הויז, וואס זיי האלטן די קאפירייט אויפן בילד. און עס איז זייער נישט מסתבר אז די ווייסע הויז וועט זיין אינטערעסירט אריינצוגעבן א קלאגע דערוועגן. עס איז טאקע נישט קיין בעטעמ'טע עסק, אבער ב''ה נישט מער פון דעם.
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Hillary and the Hasidim
By Joseph Wendelken
Through all the courting of fickle donors and glad-handing from coast to coast, Sen. Hillary Clinton always knew that she had friends back at home.
She scored a decided victory in her party's presidential primary in New York State on February 5, that superist of Tuesdays. She also bested her adversary, Sen. Barack Obama, in Brooklyn, despite the different virtual garrisons for thousands of his young, eager foot soldiers in the borough (including the indefatigable folks at BrooklynForBarack.org and the clever activists at AudacityOfParkSlope.org). In Williamsburg's two Assembly districts, Clinton won by 25 percent points.
A staffer for the sometimes-floundering Clinton campaign listed reform-minded Jewish voters in the state and Hispanics in the borough among her loyalists.
But few constituencies in New York, and certainly no group in the North Brooklyn, remain as unflinchingly loyal to their junior senator as Williamsburg's Hasidic Jews, according to many both inside and outside of that community.
Before Clinton's 2000 senate run, longtime political powerbroker and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), himself an orthodox Jew, opened doors for her in the state's different Jewish communities. But in few locales did she need more doors opened than in Williamsburg, where two or three leaders serve as gatekeepers to the rest of the Satmar Hasidic community. With the blessing of these gatekeepers comes near unanimous electoral support from the Williamsburg Hasidim.
''We vote as a community,'' said Rabbi David Neiderman, the executive director of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, which provides myriad social and housing services to the Hasidim. ''This is not about individual people's needs, this is about the community's needs. We understand what our needs are and we look together at who is addressing those needs.''.
In an interview in his Penn Street office, Neiderman explained that a group of 15 community leaders decide whom the Hasidim should support in upcoming city, state and federal elections.
In making these decisions, members of this unnamed group of 15 do not act as ideologues, but rather ask the questions their families and neighbors need answered, he added.
''Where are families going to live? How is bread going to be put on the table? How is the rent going to be paid?'' he asked as he stood over a fax machine with his desk phone at one ear and a cellular phone at the other. ''Those are the core issues, and we believe that she will be extremely responsive to them.''
As a senator, Neiderman said, she did as much.
''They like her because of their stances socially,'' said David Chill, a political science professor at Touro College, a Jewish-sponsored institution with campuses throughout the city and in Israel. A Williamsburg native, Chill added: ''They're very much a minority in the sense that their needs are of the community. They have many children and they don't have the means.''
Her economic policy even won over Hasidic voters who were less enamored with her. ''I don't like her at all,'' said a Hasidic merchant on Lee Avenue, who voted for Clinton on Super Tuesday. ''I couldn't believe that I was pressing that button, but the interest of the community is number one. People are not rich here. They have 10, 12 kids; some use food stamps, Medicare.''
The merchant, who requested anonymity because his views differed from those of the area's Hasidic leaders, said that he took issue with Clinton's stances on ''moral issues,'' a statement he would not develop further.''
In his final days in the Oval Office, President Bill Clinton commuted the prison sentences of four Hasidic men from a Hasidic enclave in nearby New Square, N.Y. His move to grant clemency to the felons prompted accusations that he engaged in vote trading for his campaigning wife, though federal prosecutors eventually announced in 2002 that they found no wrongdoing.
While some Hasidic Jews, find some of Clinton's stances on 'morality' issues objectionable, many contended that her gender matters little to the Hasidim.
''We're much more likely to elect a woman than the rest of America,'' said Israel Abraham, a Hasidic, 30-year Williamsburg resident.
However, Der Yid, a Williamsburg-based, weekly Jewish newspaper, along with Hamodia, a national Jewish daily newspaper, do not print photographs of Clinton or other females.
To avoid mixing of the genders, female members of the Clinton campaign staff held at the back of a procession that moved through Williamsburg as part of a Clinton rally on February 3. (The few austerely dressed women in Williamsburg approached during the reporting for this piece, many in apparent preparation for Purim, turned away unresponsively). The candidate did not attend the rally.
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