The art that accompanied 'Orthodox Paradox' adds to the implication of tampering with a photo. It plainly shows an outline of a person missing from a scene. It's not a party scene (it shows men with books, fringes, tefillin, etc.), and it's a piece of art (by R. Kikuo Johnson), but a man is shown as a negative outline: no color, no detail, as though someone had been cut from the colorful scene with scissors.

Surely this was commissioned to accompany the piece, and it would be most interesting to see what was asked for.

Now that we see the actual photos from the party, it's plain to me that choosing a photo that doesn't show everyone present is a much less exclusionary act than the implied Photoshop session. My sincere apologies to his classmates, who I had accused of enjoying his company but being unwilling to admit it publicly. I'm so very sorry to have been insufficiently skeptical.