JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli chief rabbinate has reacted angrily to a legal opinion submitted by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit regarding the issue of females taking semicha tests and receiving an equivalent status to semicha as ‘halachic advisors’. Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, the Sephardi chief rabbi, even threatened to suspend the entire Semicha examinations over the issue. […]