AJC should probably spend more money trying to provide constructive ways to inspire the next generation of Jews than attacking the progress of women fighting for equality.

And now that I know your back story – I’ll know not to give your angry bitc…. , um *ripostes* about the Ortho community more weight than they’re due.

And most of the women there do get married. And Rabbanit Henkin absolutely rocks.

I could look into the whole matter for you, if you would like more info. I suspect that, while the position of women in general is probably not one that you or I would be particularly comfortable with, the situation is probably far more complex than it would appear to one on the outside. I just keep on thinking of my haredi friends from Maalot Dafna, and the wives of my former bosses (Har Nof and Bayit Vegan)–none of them are retiring shrinking violets. All are married.

Of course, I ask lots of questions, and am self-reliant, self-supporting, etc. And also not married. So maybe the HarNof’ers are right?

Listen Ben-David… I don’t think you should buy any more copies of Ms. magazine … it’s inciting you too much. Also, I’d hide my copy of Maxim if I were you…between two gemarahs…your wife will never look for them there.

If is were a simple case of imbalance in one issue, standard operating procedure is to:
1) say that when rejecting the ad, and
2) offer to run the ad the following month.

That’s not what happened. The implication was that an ad that said something positive about Israel was too controversial – that is would “set off a firestorm”.

There is nothing incendiary about that ad.

Certainly Ms. can accept or reject any ad it wishes. And now – thanks to the internet – its motives and prejudices can be laid out and discussed.

I’m sure there are many, many intelligent haredi young ladies asking probing questions about the role of women in Orthodox Judaism in Har Nof, Bayit Vegan and Talpiot, but eventually someone will say to each one of those women “Hey, if you don’t knock it off with the Feminist stuff you will never get a Shidduch” and that will be end of that young woman’s questioning.

As for the ones that keep on questioning, well…they will never get a shidduch.

“If they reject again, then I would worry”
No, even feminazis are allowed to have privately run print publications with editorial control in this country. Would you expect Playboy to run an ad for a non-profit Pro-abstinence group? No.

I suspect the whole thing was very benign. Most likely the ad sales rep was just trying to make a living and said “Oh, we are doing an issue on Israel…I’ll call every Jewish group I can think of to push the sale a large ad” (15% of $5,500 is better than a kick in the ass). Then the AJC’s print ad buyer drove her crazy about price and placement until she finally said “Fuck it, I don’t need this account, it’s taking up too much of my time, tell the AJC to go take a shit in the Dead Sea.”

Then the higher ups at the AJC took this little “ad rejection incident” and used it to create more exposure, free buzz and sympathy than the original ad would have done.

Jews can be pretty saavy with PR, some say we control the media.

Perhaps Har Nof has its feminist corners as well?

Gila

I’m finding it a little hard to see what the big deal is about this ad rejection. Take another photo where you have Beinisch and two female politicians from two different parties and resubmit. If they reject again, then I would worry.

Ms. Magazine is profiling Livni in the issue, so anti-Israel bias doesn’t seem to be the issue.

On the other hand, I’m curious about the AJC’s objectives. Is this an important constituency to reach?

Also, another advertiser may have offered her more money at the last minute than the AJC for that space. Advertising space is often sold by commissioned sales reps. If I were closing a deal near the end of the month for AJC for $15,000 for a Full page, 4 color and Hezbollah Central offered me $20,000 I might consider running to my Editor to ask for permission to drop AJC. The final decision is up to the Editor-in-Chief , the Publisher and the particular conscience (or lack thereof) of the Advertising Sales Rep.

In IS ironic that Ms. readership apparently might be offended by pro-Israel ads when in fact Israel is the only place in the middle east to be a feminist.

As far the biz of the publishing industry – i leave all that to you chutzpah

The print magazine industry is too competitive today to offer an issue that might discourage readers from buying the next issue;or,canceling or not renewing a subscription.

Nothing wrong with running two issues in a row containing one article each on a topic.

Palestinian readers are just as important as Israeli readers of either political party to the magazine’s bottom line,afterall it is not “Jewish Living Today”. Editorial choices need to be made with profits in mind.

One magazine can’t “undo” the sexism of the contents found in another…that is a non-business-driven assumption.