Over Half Of Religious-Zionist Women Want Female Halachic Adviser

By Jeremy Sharon
Posted on 09/26/16 | News Source: jpost.com

Calls for female religious leadership in the liberal wing of the religious-Zionist sector have been increasing in recent years.

More than half of religious-Zionist women would like a female spiritual leader in their community with whom they could consult on matters of Jewish law, found a recent poll conducted for Herzog College.

The poll, conducted by the TAK Strategies institute, polled religious-Zionist women on a variety if issues pertaining to religious women in communal life, ahead of the opening of a new religious study program for women at Herzog’s Jerusalem campus.

The survey was conducted by internet on a sample of 210 religious-Zionist women above the age of 18 in July 2016 with a margin of error of 6.9%.

According to the survey, 53 percent of the women polled said that it was important to them that their be a female religious leader who can give halachic advice, in parallel to a male rabbi.

Another 21% said they might...read more at JPOST