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Israel - Rabbi to IDF: Opt for Prison Over Hearing Girls Sing
Jul 07, 2009 at 08:15 AMIsrael - Former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has called on religious IDF soldiers to choose imprisonment over hearing a woman singing during military events and ceremonies. The dominant national-religious rabbi said that he was asked by soldiers what they ought to do when their commanders order them to stay at an event in which a woman was singing. Orthodox Jewish law prohibits men...
