The latest from rabbi Lau is that he announced yesterday that he has absolutely no problem at all with women being appointed to jobs as mashgichot. He said that the involvement of the Supreme Court in the matter was entirely superfluous, as there is nothing that should prevent women from becoming mashgichot.
source: Kipa and INN
Of course he meant halachically. Until now the chief rabbis have postponed dealing with the issue and had never given a final response - just the bland "we are looking into it". Rabbi Lau's positive response is definitely a change of direction.
If Rabbi Lau is Haredi, sign me up!
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Who will stop the shidduch crisis
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I was surprised when I found out they didn't accept female mashgichot in the first place. When I was I yeshiva bochur in South Africa, I did a hashgacha course, and most of the participants as well as the trainer were women. SA Beth Din has always allowed female mashgichot, and nobody has every had any issue with that.
ReplyDeleteRabbi Lau is definitely not Charedi. If you ever hear him speak or read anything he wrote that should be very clear (although he's not typical Religious-Zionist either)
ReplyDeleteI think that the Charedim backed him in the election because they knew that if they didn't find a moderate candidate who would be able to win votes from people like the Mayors of Tel Aviv and Modi'in, they would be stuck the Rav Stav who would not be acceptable at all to them.