"The positions of Rabbi Yosef in general, and in relation to women in particular, are problematic and contradict the basic principles of democratic society."
Source/Credit: Haaretz
By Yair Ettinger | Jul.08, 2013
Three women's organizations have together called candidate Rabbi Avraham Yosef, son of Shas spiritual leader, to task over his controversial statements in general and about women in particular.
Few women will participate in the upcoming election of the chief rabbis of Israel, but women's groups are trying to affect the outcome by opposing the candidacy of the son of the Shas party's spiritual leader rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
The group Yad L'isha, which represents women whose husbands refuse to grant divorces or have disappeared, is actively supporting one of Yosef's opponents in the race, Rabbi Zion Boaron, who is also being backed by the outgoing Sephardi chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar.
"If Rabbi Boaron is elected as chief rabbi, it will ease the misery of 'agunot' ['women whose husbands have disappeared'] and many other women who are refused divorces, and will honor the Torah and the chief rabbinate," Bat-Sheva Sherman-Shani, Yad L'isha's director and an attorney wrote in a statement on behalf of the organization. She added that during her work at the rabbinical courts, Rabbi Boaron's rulings have "often led to actually saving 'agunot'!" [.... more...]
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