JERUSALEM (Web Desk) – An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website has cut Kim Kardashian – one of the world’s most photographed women – from a photo taken of her in Jerusalem this week.
The original photo of Kardashian, her husband, Kanye West, and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat was altered to put Kardashian behind a restaurant receipt. Kardashian was blurred in another.
Kim Kardashian erased from sight by ultra-Orthodox Israeli newspaper http://t.co/6W0aELomeD pic.twitter.com/h1E853aXmB
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) April 15, 2015
Nissim Ben Haim, an editor at the Kikar HaShabbat website, said they removed Kardashian because she’s a “pornographic symbol” who contradicts ultra-Orthodox values.
In an article chiding Barkat for dining with them at a non-kosher restaurant, Kardashian was referred to as “West’s wife.”
Within the insular Ultra-Orthodox community, pictures of women often aren’t shown out of modesty. In January, an ultra-Orthodox newspaper removed German chancellor Angela Merkel from a photo.
