Rabbi: Better that soldiers face fire than hear women sing

21.11.2011                      24.Cheschwan. 5772

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Rabbi: Better that soldiers face fire than hear women sing

Chief rabbi of Samaria region says if IDF requires religious soldiers to attend events where women sing, soldiers should leave, even if firing squad waiting.

If the IDF adopts a recommendation that obligates religious soldiers to attend events in which there are women singing, “rabbis would be forced to tell soldiers ‘you have to leave [such an event] even if there’s a firing squad waiting outside to kill you,’” the chief rabbi of Samaria and rabbi of the Elon Moreh settlement, Elyakim Levanon, said in a radio interview on Thursday afternoon.
Levanon comments followed a report in Yediot Aharonot that the committee established by the IDF to recommend policy on the issue of Orthodox soldiers having to listen to women sing at army ceremonies will recommend that soldiers be obligated to attend official events with female singers, despite religious objections….