“…it is difficult to accept a haredi message about women’s more private roles when haredi kollel culture means that their women have to take jobs requiring much more exposure to the broader world…”

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In general, it is difficult to accept a haredi message about women’s more private roles when haredi kollel culture means that their women have to take jobs requiring much more exposure to the broader world than their men experience in the beit midrash. If supporting Talmud Torah can justify women in the workforce interacting with men and with secular Jews, then apparently other values can trump the privacy of a bat melekh.

Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, “Greek Thought, Women’s Roles, and Rabbinic Discourse at YU”, The Commentator (27 March 2016) [http://yucommentator.org/2016/03/greek-thought-womens-roles-and-rabbinic-discourse-at-yu/]

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