Clinton says ‘unbelievable’ she was airbrushed out of Hasidic paper

Newly released email shows presidential candidate was perplexed by Haredi newspaper Der Zeitung’s decision to alter official photo

By JTA 2 January 2016, 6:09 am

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In this Dec. 22, 2015 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a town hall meeting at Keota High School in Keota, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

The US State Department released another 5,000 pages of emails of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, part of a trove of correspondences that she sent and received on a personal account while serving as secretary of state.

The State Department also announced Thursday afternoon that 275 of the emails were upgraded to classified, bringing the number of emails that were newly classified to 1,274. More emails are scheduled to be released this month.

In one of the emails released on Thursday, from May 2011, Clinton complains about being airbrushed from an official White House photo, for use in a New York-based Yiddish language Hasidic newspaper, the VosIzNeias news website reported. Some Hasidic and Haredi Orthodox newspapers have a policy of not publishing photos of women, citing modesty concerns.

In an email with the subject line “Unbelievable” Clinton wrote: “The Jerusalem Post reported today that a NY Hasidic paper Der Zeitung published the sit room photo w/o me (or Audrey T) photoshopped out perhaps because no woman should be in such a place of power or that I am dressed immodestly!!”

The newspaper later apologized to the White House and the State Department for altering the photo. The White House photos are provided with the stipulation that they not be altered.