From rabbi willig – courtesy of the commentator:
“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.”
“We must obey all of Hashem’s laws, especially those that others trample upon,” Rabbi Willig wrote. He writes that one of the sources of rampant transgressions among many in the Modern Orthodox community is due to blurred lines in gender roles as they concern religious practice. He talks about how many may not like the message that he is spreading, and that issues such as gender equality may lead to a “schism” among Orthodox Judaism.
“This phenomenon (feminism within orthodoxy) may lead to a schism within Orthodoxy.
Rabbi willig acknowledges that there is widespread sinfulness in MO on a communal level, why can’t the rest of you?
According to him, perhaps if MO schools would have followed the halacha and not taught gemara, we wouldn’t be in this situation now.
Compare that to president richard joel of YU :
President Richard Joel said, “there’s no limit to what women can do and learn. This is a university that honors thought, even when there is profound disagreement about that thought. Universities should be safe spaces where its scholars and faculty can express themselves civilly and be free to disagree. Yeshiva University has to honor that, even as it says clearly that statements of faculty, whether religious or secular, are statements of their own, and in no way represent the policies of the university. The president speaks for the University. Within halacha, there should be no limits to what women can learn and achieve.”
….haskalah through and through. He thinks he knows halacha tok, that halacha never limits what one can learn….he would do well to actually learn somr halacha. He would say the same thing about learning apikorsus, since you can’t limit what one can learn and think….this is the PRESIDENT of your institution!!! Wake up!