I subscribe to and enjoy reading AMI magazine. With that said, I am still trying to understand the “no photos of women” policy employed by these papers. While this is certainly no proof to anything, I recently purchased the new expanded edition of R’ Shimon Finklemans biography of R’ Moshe Z’l. The book contains numerous photos of his Rebbetzin, family portraits that include photos of his daughters in law and granddaughters and other women who are mentioned in the book. The biography of R’ Pam Z’l and numerous other books published by Artscroll also contain photos of women. They clearly do not believe it is forbidden and do not have an editorial policy against it. So, when did this become editorial policy of the Yated, Hamodia, Mishpacha etc… and why? Some of the advertisements contained in these magazines and newspapers are hashkafically more problematic than a partially obscured head shot of Hillary Clinton (mishpacha magazine recently addressed one such ad).
