Wolf, there is a tremendous difference between hanging a picture of your mother in your home and publishing her picture in a mass-circulation newspaper.
Why? It’s only an issue of magnitude, but the same basic underlying principle remains the same. If my mother’s picture can be seen by the cable guy (yes, I know, I’m going to hell for having cable), the plumber, my sons’ friends, the insurance salesman and any other Tom, Dick or Harry that parades through my house, then why can’t it be seen by people in a newspaper?
I don’t recall seeing any pictures of women in any of the Roshei Yeshiva’s homes that I have been to,
I *have* seen pictures of women in the homes of my rabbeim and rosh yeshiva. Those include their mothers, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters. But, of course, I’m sure there are those who will say that if they accepted me as a talmid then they clearly aren’t *real* rabbeim…
The Wolf