02.02.2012                      09.Schwat. 5772

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Livni: Women’s right to eulogize must be enforced

New directive from Religious Services Ministry states explicitly that burial societies must allow women to give eulogies.

Despite a new ministerial directive presented to the Knesset on Wednesday instructing burial societies and municipal rabbis that they may not prevent women from giving eulogies at funerals, concerns remain that the directive will not be enforced.
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, as well as religious rights groups, expressed disappointment that the renewal of a burial society’s license, which oversees Jewish funeral ceremonies, is not conditional on compliance with the ministry’s guidelines….