OU: Sack Feldman now that he’s admitted photo wasn’t doctored

From the JTA:

The Orthodox Union called on the New York Times Magazine to sack contributing editor Noah Feldman after he admitted that he and his Korean-American girlfriend may not have been cropped from a photo taken at his Orthodox school reunion.

Feldman sparked an avalanche of response with his essay in the July 22 edition of the New York Times Magazine, in which he used the example of the cropped photo as the launching point for a pointed critique of the contradictions he see in Modern Orthodoxy.

The New York Jewish Week reported this week that in fact a number of photographs were taken at the reunion and the one in which Feldman and his girlfriend, now wife, were pictured had a large number of people in the frame, a number of whom likely were eliminated from the final shot. According to the photographer who took the pictures, Feldman and editors at the magazine became aware of the situtation shortly before publication.

While Feldman acknowledged in the Jewish Week interview that the crop may not have been an intentional slight on the part of his alma mater, the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass., he nonetheless stood by the broader thrust of his essay.