I'd Divorce Him
An Israeli couple sought the judgment of a rabbinical court to settle their marital dispute. The issue? The wife was planning to vote for the Labor Party in the upcoming general election. The husband, who plans to vote Likud, said that he wouldn't accept his wife "voting against his will." The rabbinical court ruled that the woman should not vote in the upcoming election. I see.
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Well I'd vote Likud myself.
But it was surely an Ashkenazic court. First, I don't know any S'fardim named Miller. But the original law about women voting was that they would'nt be able to. Don't you just love it?
Anyway, the Chief Rabbi, a S'fardi, ruled the other way. He simply said: "The Torah doesn't prohibit women from voting, and we're required to use logic in our interpretations. Logic requires that women, many of whom are smarter than men, be allowed to vote."
But there are still certain communities who agitate for the ruling to be reversed. I'm sure that's why the court told her not to vote, instead of him.
Remember that the Rabbis wanted to put a curfew on women when Golda Meir was Prime Minister. She simply said that since the men were committing the crimes (rape) they should be under curfew, not women. The Rabbis dropped it like a hot potato.
Sigh...
Posted by: Mom | January 21, 2003 02:11 PM