In response to the controversy on the altered picture of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton in our weekly magazine Dee Voch:
We fully respect the President of the United States and his entire Staff, regardless of their gender.
In times when slander, gossip and immodesty dominate coverage in many publications, we, following our modesty rules, try reporting Rabbinical and worldly events in the most proper and unbiased manner.
Avoiding pictures of women in our paper is in no way representing an ideology or race inequality, it is following the guidelines of our publication to avoid pictures of women in our magazine.
We do apologize to the affected persons who may have felt offended; it was unintentional.
Those who brought this into the spotlight citing racial reasons, is totally absurd! It was we (the Orthodox newspapers and publications) that are credited for much of Clinton's Orthodox coverage in the primary elections. It was altered for the one and only reason; our rules of modesty not to publish pictures of women, regardless of their stature or modesty
