Professional advancement in Halacha: Why women should be allowed to take official exams - opinion
Israel
Despite the High Court's unequivocal ruling that women, too, may sit for the complete set of rabbinical exams, the chief rabbis submitted a request last week for an additional hearing and for a stay on the ruling's implementation. In their request, they propose that women be tested only on the laws of Shabbat and family purity.This disregards the reality that the public, men and women alike, are already voting with their feet and turning to female halachic authorities for guidance on a wide
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