Reply To: Non Jewish Funerals

” A government appointed official is no more of an authority on Halacha than any yungerman who went through the sugyos. If even that. Unless of course he is independently a Talmid Chochom”
the fact of the matter is that a CR is appointed because political considerations not because he knows how to learn, in fact there has been some major am haritzim in those posts.
To the best of knowlege the last major talmud chocom in goverment service was Rav Meir Shapiro and he was in the Semp, not CR