{"id":17554,"date":"2010-03-09T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2010-03-09T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:22:49","slug":"yisroel-pensack-todays-self-appointed-chareidi-tznius-police-lack-support-in-halacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17554","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: Today’s Self-Appointed Chareidi Tznius Police Lack Support in Halacha"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2001, “The Edah Journal”<\/a> ran what it said was the first publication in English of a 1920 responsum (opinion on Jewish law) regarding women’s electoral rights by Rav BenZion Meir Hai Uziel, who was Sephardic chief rabbi of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) when he wrote this responsum and later served as the first chief Sephardic rabbi of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n

In discussing women’s suffrage from a halachic standpoint, Rabbi Uziel also wrote about issues that were apparently inconceivable then but which, incredibly, actually do plague us today (italics added by YP):<\/p>\n

But perhaps this [women voting] should be prohibited because of licentiousness?
\nBut what licentiousness can there be in this,
\nthat each person goes to the poll and enters his voting
\nslip? If we start considering such activities as licentious,
\nno creature would be able to survive! Women and men
\nwould be prohibited from walking in the street, or from
\nentering a shop together; it would be forbidden to negotiate
\nin commerce with a woman, lest this encourage
\ncloseness and lead to licentiousness. Such ideas have never
\nbeen suggested by anyone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Until now, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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