Women as Kashrut Supervisors in Israel
The Israeli organization for national-religious women, Emunah, has begun the process of establishing a course for women who want to be Mashgiḥot Kashrut, kashrut supervisors. They have approached the Chief Rabbinate with a proposal that includes a curriculum. Apparently much is dependent on the local Rabbinic Council, and in Efrat this has already been implemented. See news reports about it here, here, and here, and the following segment that was broadcast on Galei Tzahal that includes an interview with Liora Minka the director of Emunah. (Heb.)
May 7th, 2012 at 9:58 am
This is an ominous development. If they do to kashrus (an already messed-up industry) what they did to Pesach cleaning, we are in gihakte tzoris.