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Dearest Readers:
Last year I shared with you the sad picture of an apikorus in the heilige Chaim Berlin Beis Medrash, easily spotted due to his blue shirt. You can see this tragic photo, chosen by Chaim Berlin to grace their 2009 calendar, here:
http://www.frumsatire.net/
I'm relieved to inform you that the nebach bochur has done teshuva!! I recently received the Chaim Berlin 2010 calendar and, as you can see in the attached scan, the previously-stained bochur is now wearing a white shirt!
Yes, the attached file really is an unedited scan of the 2010 calendar cover (except for the green commentary, of course). Yes, it really is the exact same shot as the 2009 calendar with one small difference. You can verify this with anyone who receives Chaim Berlin's fundraising material.
In this time of public scandals and serious problems in our community it's good to know that someone at Chaim Berlin took the time to change a blue shirt to a white one. I'm speaking of course of the bochur, that inspiring role model who saw the error of his ways. How he got everyone to pose in the exact same way for the reshoot I don't know, but I'd guess it's because they were inspired by his teshuvah. Please forward this around and/or post it publicly so as to be mefarsem the bochur's inspiring change.
Mordechai
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Wow, it took the guy a whole year to change his shirt!
I LOVE IT!!!!
I will be linking this!
Several people have pointed out to me that there is even more photo manipulation. If you look at the right side a few rows up you'll se that they digitally added two bochurim to a table that was empty in the original. The guy pasted on the right side is a (slightly distorted) copy from the table right in front of the "BT."
Okay, so they got the guy to change his shirt, but how did they get everyone to sit in exactly the same spot???? :-)
Mark
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Reminds me of a simpsons episode where homer came to work in a pink shirt and everyone was starring at him.
You're right! They added the guy in the jacket to the right side, but the empty chair is now sort of a quasi-there phantom.
I must have laughed for fifteen minutes straight. too funny.
Very good.
And very timely.
Just in time for chodesh Ellul.
It's never too late to do teshuvoh!
Ha! BTW, Gilmore is home.
CIB: Maybe he just washed enough times until the color ran off.
g6: Yay! could use few links.
MOrdy: great post. frummies have been know to photoshop stuff.
Ever see the Knesset photo altered to exclude female MKs?
Mark:Photoshop.
lvsm: Thanks for visiting!
SW & FP: LOL
litvak: Neva!
LFD: TY for letting me know, ill stop by maybe...
"If thy sins shall turn blue be as T'kheles they will whiten as snow!"
Lady MacBeth did the photoshopping shouting "out damned spot" the whole time
I don't think this had to do with putting up an "all white" front because the yeshiva does not have a "white shirt only" rule (it's de facto)
I think it was photoshopped for a clean and uniform look (although why are they using the same picture from year to year anyway lol)
Scenario: Agudath Israel Of America convention - Rye, NY
Speaker : Harav Hagaon Aron Schechtor Rosh Hayeshiva of Yeshiva and Mesifta Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and Camp Morris and member of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah of America and Brooklyn South.
Moirah, V'raboisai,
I have very important things to say in my speech. But before i say these things i would like to make a joke.
Please laugh at my joke it will help my ego. Ok. Here's the joke - Why is it dangerous to be alone with a litvisher rosh yeshiva in the forest ?? The answer is that he might chas v'shalom want to kill you because he always has a taavah to make a hesped. Ha ,Ha, thank you for laughing.
OK,here is the important part of my speech - Last summer there was a story picked up by the bloggers daas baal habbatim yimach shmmom re: the airbrushed photo of someone (not necessarily one of our students) in our beis medrash.
Raboisai! What they don't know was through our gabboim and one of our mexican maintenance men we found out this boy is in the shidduch parsha and we in our infinite mercy enlisted artscroll's photoshop airbrushed specialist to help this boy in his shidduch prospects.
Due to the exposure, the boy will not get a "good" shidduch. He also resumed his "blue shirt" ways and has decided to enroll in college part time Rachmana Litzlan !!
To all of you bloggers- Don't tell us what the truth is !! A shidduch is now ruined and the boy continues to wear the colored shirt. See what all of you have done !!
Really unimpressed Malach. Cheap shot at R' Ahron 2 days into chodesh Elul..
Chaim Berlin does not have a white shirt only rule and allows the boys to go to college. Why won't you accept that it was done for uniformity-?
Maybe this kid didn't want a reputation for posterity that he 'ruined' the picture of the bais medrash, again I repeat not in terms of besmirching the yeshiva but in terms of just sticking out unnecessarily...
Bray: Well-said! Love the quote.
Auror: Who knows?
MM: Oh oh. U bad. Real Bad. LOL.
Auror: Yes, they don't have a uniform look but my sources tell me its frowned upon any none -white shirts.
I'll be l'chav z'chus that the yeshiva did this simply to get a uniform picture rather than for ideological reasons. But it raises another, important question. Thanks to "electronic intervention" like Photoshop, can we ever know anymore if what we are seeing is the "truth" or a doctored version of what someone else wants us to see?
That is absolutely ridiculous. I'm still laughing.
Wowie zowie. The photo seen 'round the Jewish world, lol.
What's wrong with you?! Those seforim were very lonely and sad and someone was kind enough to put people in front of them!
As far as the blue shirt, did you know that Obama wears blue shirts? Is this the kind of image you want a yeshiva to project?!
Why I am reminded of the seinfeld episode about wearing the ribbon? Who? Who doesn't want to wear the white shirt? You don't want to wear the white shirt? Well maybe we should show him how to wear the white shirt. lol
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