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On the day the “Equality Bill” passed an initial vote in the Knesset, I heard MK Moshe Gafni (A Haredi/ultra-Orthodox  party) say on the radio “Judaism is not egalitarian.”  I thought that this was outrageous and disturbing, although I understood where he was coming from.
While my understanding of Judaism is that there are many legitimate streams of Judaism, his understanding is that there is only one legitimate Judaism, with some relatively minor permissible variations.  MK Gafni gave the example that in (his) Judaism, men and women have different roles.   In the Haredi world, many fear that codifying equality could lead to the State impinging on their way of ....

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