Flyer of a ruling against voting rights for women – Agudat Yisrael – Jerusalem 1926

In 1919, the ‘Union of Hebrew Women for Equal Rights in Israel’ was established, led by Sara Azaryahu, with the goal of promoting the involvement of women in public life and the granting of voting rights to women at the voters’ meeting in 1921. The general public, led by the rabbis in Israel, viewed this as an attempt to follow the trend of the ever-changing world culture and opposed to natural Jewish modesty and healthy family structure. The great rabbis in Israel, led by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, as well as the great rabbis of that generation overseas, expressed their clear opposition.
This is a flyer from 1926 – “Ruling from our rabbis in exile,” quoting the opinions of the great rabbis of the generation – the Chafetz Chaim, Ohr Sameach, Rogochover, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Breuer and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Zach – “because according to our Torah, women have no right to vote or to be elected.”
The flyer was printed by the Kol Yisrael newspaper of Agudat Yisrael in Jerusalem, whose editor was Rabbi Refael Katzenelbogen, and attached to the newspaper issue of October 28, 1925.
Condition: Good – Very good. Several folding marks. No tears.