Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has attacked a strictly Orthodox sect's ban on women driving as “at odds with Jewish values”.
In a letter sent out last week, leaders of the Stamford Hill-based Belz sect declared that female drivers go against “the traditional rules of modesty in our camp”.
Rabbi Mirvis, in a clear reference to the letter, described such a view of women as “objectionable”.
A much better example for Jewish women to follow, he believed, was Baroness Altmann, the newly appointed pensions minister who was enobled in a ceremony attended by the Chief Rabbi.
