01.02.2012                      08.Schwat. 5772

Innenpolitik:

Metzger calls for strike over appointments crisis

UTJ and Shas veto bill that would reserve spots on rabbinical court appointment committee for women.

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Monday night called for dayanim, or rabbinical judges, to shut down the Supreme Rabbinical Court for Appeal in protest over the ongoing suspension of the appointments committee for rabbinical judges.
The committee was suspended by the High Court in November following a petition by the Emunah women’s rights groups protesting the complete absence of women on it for the first time in 12 years. Emunah argued that the lack of female representation on the committee violates gender equality laws….