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The Million Merkel March

For our Haredi brothers and sisters, an even more perfect Paris rally picture

by
Esther C. Werdiger
January 14, 2015
(Main image: Getty; Photo illustration: Esther Werdiger)
(Main image: Getty; Photo illustration: Esther Werdiger)

On Jan. 14, 2015, the Associated Press reported: “A small Jewish ultra-Orthodox newspaper in Israel is making waves internationally for removing German Chancellor Angela Merkel from a photo of this week’s Paris march out of modesty.”

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Esther C. Werdiger, Tablet’s art director, is a writer and artist from Melbourne. Her essays, comics and illustrations have appeared at The Awl, The Hairpin, Saveur, the Forward and in Lilith. She lives in Brooklyn.