Video: Playboy Magazine To Launch Hebrew Language Israel Edition

The famous men's culture and style magazine that features glossy pictures of nude female models will soon be making its debut in Israel. Chicago-born lawyer and "media entrepreneur" Daniel Pomerantz is behind the project. He told JN1TV that fears about what JN1TV calls possible "objections" to Playboy's Israel edition have been handled. How have they been handled? By…

 

…choosing content for the magazine that is "perfectly matched to the Israeli market."

The Times of Israel, whenre Pommerantz sometimes blogs, adds a bit of background:

…Pomerantz, a lawyer by trade…, is undaunted by the decline in printed magazine sales around the world, as well as by the experience of Penthouse magazine, which came to Israel in 1989 but stopped publishing locally only four years later. Likewise, he asserted that opposition from women’s rights or religious groups would not be a problem as he will pick “content that is perfectly matched to the Israeli market.”…

I will leave the possibilities for that "perfectly matched" content up to your imagination.

But I will say that the background footage JN!TV uses when it talks about the possible "objections" to Playboy coming to Israel is of a street full of haredi males. Does Pommerantz really think his content changes will placate haredi leaders and haredi modesty squads?

Here's the JN!TV news video. Sheild your eyes and guard your souls, people. This is not for the chaste – or for the chaste of heart:

 

 

Comments

[Gold]

Judging from the Youtube comments they are already protesting.

[Elisheva]

I bet Playboy would actually do quite well in Israel precisely BECAUSE of the haredim. A large male population that is obsessed with other people's sexuality, has weird hang-ups about women's body parts, and has either never heard of or doesn't know how to use the Internet? It's genius!

[Der Yukle]

Yeah us guys only buy playboy for the articles
therefore the need to print in Hebrew.But I would advise to print it in YIDDISH for the people who have internet FILTERS therefore need access to their favorite playmate.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

When I lived in Rehavia, the Haredim would stop at our neighborhood makolet to buy their stroke material.

[Der Yukle]

stroke material.LOL

[Expatriate Owl]

Once upon a time, National Geographic showed more bare body parts than did Playboy. But we, as grade school kids, were able to read National Geographic with impunity in the school library because it is an educational magazine.

Maybe Pomerantz should be marketing a National Geographic style magazine to the Israelis!

Not that it will placate the black hats and streimls! They object even to the teaching of mathematics!

[Rebitzman]

Those dress code standards you posted earlier apply?

[seth]

"culture and style magazine" - lmao. It is "soft" porn. On other hand, de gustibus non est disputandum.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Top Porno Mags for Frummies:

1. Playgoy

2. Hassid-ler

3. Pent-up

4. Beis Yaakov Beavers

5. Barely Kosher

6. Shtup

7. Moishe Maxim

[Rochel]

Since the charedim don't have smart phones or internet, they will probably flock to this magazine!

[Shmuel]

As long as Hugh Hefner keeps wearing that nice black hat he will have the charedi clientele.

[Moshe in Israel]

Rabbits aren't kosher.

[Eli, what me messiah?]

The video is scandalous, Shmarya! you can plainly see haredi men using smart phones! What kind of filth are you publishing here?

as for Playboy, the rabbonim will buy up all the copies as they must personally review in detail (in the privacy of their bathrooms) every copy before issuing the usual fatwahs.

[Maskil]

Yeah, it'll have no prob in Meah Shearim. It's gonna have content perfectly matched to the Israeli market: a column from the local Rebbe on tzniyit, and a parallel column from one of the gedolei roshei yeshivot of Bnei Braq on halacha. Crisis averted.

[Nachum]

There's already a Hebrew National Geographic.

[Sarek]

("Centerfold", J. Geils Band)

Does she pray? Does she cook?
Does she light the candles?
My brand new Hebrew Playboy
Never ever wearing sandals

She is pure like snowflakes,
Would leave a large bloodstain
The vision of my beshert
Gives me lots ofeyestrain

I cannot use the internet, it tempts us far too much
So what to do when I have to resort to my self-touch

From my billfold
A Hebrew Playboy's just been sold
My beshert is the centerfold
Beshert is the centerfold

I keep it rolled under my bed
If Mom finds it, I will be dead
I know nothing about sex
But Playboy shows me how.

I was shakin' in my shoes
About this sex I have no clues
We cannot talk to them
All I can say is wow

No soft nor fuzzy sweaters
She took them off this day
To see her in that negligee
I hope that I don't spray

From my billfold
A Hebrew Playboy's just been sold
My beshert is the centerfold
Beshert is the centerfold

I really do not understand
What I am doing with my hand
I really didn't learn in school
How all this works with my tool

I just daven everyday
I haven't got a clue
My rebbe makes me study
It makes me a good Jew

Playboy shows me what a girl
Looks like with her clothes off
I can't wait for the next issue
I'm wearing out the glue

From my billfold
A Hebrew Playboy's just been sold
My beshert is the centerfold
Beshert is the centerfold

[Yochanan Lavie]

Very good Sarek (BTW, I parodied that song myself a while back).

[Sarek]

Thanks, YL, member of our mutual admiration society. :>)

I can't keep track of which songs have been used.

[Yochanan Lavie]

No worries. It is still original if it's your own version. It's just a personal hang up of mine that once I use a song, it's used up (for me).

[Really]

Does it have Mordy Tendler's haskomah