A recent Dvar Torah by Rabbi Mordechai Willig posted at [
www.torahweb.org]
touches on a number of contemporary issues in the Orthodox Jewish community.
Among the recommendations that he makes is the following:
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Although there are ample reliable sources that encourage individual women who have proper yiras Shomayim and whose motives are consistent with our mesorah to further their Torah study, the inclusion of Talmud in curricula for all women in Modern Orthodox schools needs to be reevaluated. While the gedolim of the twentieth century saw Torah study to be a way to keep women close to our mesorah, an egalitarian attitude has colored some women's study of Talmud and led them to embrace and advocate egalitarian ideas and practices which are unacceptable to those very gedolim.
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The suggestion that it is time to reevaluate the inclusion of Talmud for women in Modern Orthodox schools has drawn much attention. I post below the response from Maayanot Yeshiva High School in Teaneck, which circulated this to their parent body as "An important message from our Principal, Mrs. Rivka Kahan." It appears with Mrs. Kahan's permission -
