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charliehall
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“smicha today is not halachic smicha anyway but allowing women to do bedika and calling them Rabbis and having them poskin shailos or be presidents of shules is completely different.”

“Smicha or not, you cannot psak halacha. “

Plenty of poskim PERMIT women to be presidents of shuls. And if you are knowledgeable you are OBLIGATED to address halachic questions, whether you have semichah or not. All semicha is is a declaration that someone is sufficiently learned to be trusted; there is really no halachic or other reason why women should not be included among the persons who should be able to receive this declaration in the areas for which they are chayev. And as pointed out, women used to do bedika in talmudic times.