<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp2abc0246yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is a fascinating article in JTA (linked below) where the Rav of a MO shul allowed a woman to say Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos morning. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My sense is that there is nothing wrong with that Halachicly. But My sense is also that this would never be allowed in a mainstrean Orthodox Shul that isn't MO. The Rav, Idan Scher, is not in any way OO and seems to be quite mainstream Orthodox by virtue of his educational background.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I wonder how this event would be treated by the more right wing e 'Agudah' <span><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">type </span></span>shuls. Would they allow it? Is there a Hashkafa problem ...or maybe even a Halachic problem? and if so, what would those problems be? </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/09/12/ideas/my-congregant-was-stabbed-for-being-jewish-what-happened-the-next-shabbat-was-incredible" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jta.org/2025/09/12/ideas/my-congregant-was-stabbed-for-being-jewish-what-happened-the-next-shabbat-was-incredible</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">HM</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp2abc0246signature">Want Emes and Emunah in your life?
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