Jewish website cuts Kim Kardashian out of photo for being "pornographic symbol"
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.
Nissim Ben Haim, an editor at the Kikar HaShabbat website, said Wednesday they removed Kardashian because she is 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.
Earlier this week, Kardashian and West's daughter, North, was baptized in Jersualem.
Earlier, the Kardashian sisters were Armenia on a high-visibility visit ahead of this month's observation of the centennial of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
West staged a show Sunday night in the Armenian capital, making headlines for jumping in a lake and forcing the gig to get shut down.