[Avodah] Publishing Pictures of Women

[Prof. Levine]

The Flatbush Jewish Journal is a local newspaper that serves the 
Brooklyn Jewish community. Several weeks ago as part of an obituary 
it published a picture of the deceased -  a woman who passed away 
when she was in her eighties.  The next week the paper published a 
letter to the editor urging the FJJ to follow the practice of the 
Hamodia, the Yated and Mishpacha Magazine and not publish pictures of 
women.  The next week there were several letters that were pro 
publishing pictures of women.   Recently the paper published a 
picture of Rav and Rebbetzin Pam as part of its obituary about the 
life of Rebbetzin Pam.

This week's paper contains another letter urging the paper not to 
publish pictures of women. In part this letter says, "The Gedolim 
have already expressed their opinion to omit pictures of women from 
frum papers and if the FJJ considers itself frum it should be no 
different." There is no mention as to who "the Gedolim" are.

Can anyone supply sources regarding teshuvos about this issue, both 
pro and con? There are a number of books published by Artscroll and 
Feldheim that do contain pictures of women, so I have to presume that 
there rabbonim who permit this.

Yitzchok Levine