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1. Why on earth would a “charedi” or even dati Leumi work for such an anti-religious,leftist party? Is it $$ or is she an “uncle Tom”?

2. Not too smart,with this backward and idiotic statement,they just lost a few thousand female votes.
   Litzman should well remember that in the very first elections in 1951,the Moetzes Gedolai Hatorah ruled that women are halachically not allowed to vote in elections,they sure changed their minds pretty fast

3. This trollop is as much a so-called “Chareidi” as Dov Lipman, another wolf in sheep’s clothes who falsely portrayed himself as Chareidi but was in fact, like this floozy, a rabid anti-Chareidi attempting to kasher the tarfus of the evil political wagon she’s hitched herself to.

4. Omer is obviously not your stereotype “Charedi” woman but that is not the point. She graduated the Wolf Seminary in Bnei Brak and Gateshead in the UK , England. and proceeded to earn a degree in Education and a master’s degree in law (with honors). She has been practicing for nearly 15 years in a wide range of litigation matters focusing on social and family matters. Given that the political hacks in the Agudah and other religious parties have prohibited even what they might consider “real” Chareidi women from appearing on their slates, Ms. Omer has agreed to join the Blue/White slate. Being anti-Netanyahu (who himself is not a poster child for Daas Torah but a political opportunist) is not being anti-Chareidi.

5. Yeah guys, hey i heard there is a pedophile about to be deported to australia. Maybe you should forget about mrs omer and try to save the chareidi hero from extradition to face justice.

6. docelisheva ,
   well said
   Every Election features a couple of these sorts

   chugibugi ,
   False as usual
   It was debated since. the ’20s & ruled a bedi’eved which it remains even now
   The MO disobeyed their own CR and made it their identity

7. Omar in America
   Omer in Israel

   Both controversial to say the least

   Probably lots more similarities

8. hopefully, they will launch nationwide campaigns with her in the public eye continuously; she will get more votes. IYH

9. Like IITFT said, Rabbi Avrahom HaKohen Kook ruled that women cannot run for office or even vote. So much for the Daati Leumi who ignore their own Rabbi Kook when it doesn’t fit their zionistic agenda.

10. 1. It is a major development that secular parties are including frum candidates, something that never happened until recently unless they were part of an official “dati” faction. There were Shomer Shabbos politicians, but they had to be quiet about it. One suspects there are many Shomer Mitsvos Israelis whose concerns with the government go beyond how much patronage is given to various Torah institutions.

    2. Only history will show whether reducing government involvement in the religious bureaucracy is a good thing or not. We know that in western countries, that countries with a government support state religion (most of Europe) tend to be “less religious” than the United States which has a strict “no entanglement” policy of non-establishment. One might suggest that if the government ran “religion” the way they run the post office, everyone would be an atheist (which is sort of what happens in many European countries).

11. long wait

12. UYM: I’m sure that Rav Kook’s psak that women not run for office or not vote would go over really well among most frum women. Who can forget the immortal words of Rav Mordechai Neugroschel who declared that frum women who supported legal efforts to force the religious parties to consider women candidates suffer from “some sort of schizophrenia” and are “in need of psychiatric care.” That blatant misogynistic declaration was followed by Rav Mordechai Blau a senior UT politician who declared that the husbands of women involved in political activity were required to immediately obtain a Get and that no beis din should be required to pay alimony to such machashefas . Plus we have other “chashuvah rabbonim” who warned their tzibur that any woman who engaged in political activity should not only be forbidden from teaching in a beis yaakov or other chareidi mosdos but should be ostracized and have her children expelled from those institutions. His mindless threats implied that such women were puttting themselves and their families at physical risk. And then there was that illustrious journalist Binyamin Rabinowitz, an editor at Yated Ne’eman, who argued that the MKs from UTJ, Shas and the other religious parties already represented the interests of frum women much better than those women could ever represent themselves. I guess we should anticipate seeing pashkevilim in the next week or two calling for any frum woman candidate to be dragged out and given 39 makos every time they appear for a campaign event.

13. 1. Historical opinions when the underlying technology has changed society are irrelevant.

    2. Whether men can be bitul Torah to play politics seems debateable. In a modern democracy no special skill is needed to be a politician.

    3. Once the decision was made to have free elections (not the traditional way of choosing leaders in most of the world), and to allow women to vote, it is probably advantageous to have more female politicians.

    4. One should note that the hareidi boycott (telling women not to vote) of the first elections under the mandate resulted in the zionists taking over control of the yishuv – had hareidim women voted, the zionists would not have been able to take over the community and become the leaders of the Yishuv in the eyes of the world.