We should definitely have a Penis Convention and invite only woman speakers!

This article has very little detail. Oh yes "the Rabbis said". Well back it up. Who said which Rabbi's said. Put some names to this disgrace. Both Rabbis and organisers.

Rule number one in Judaism, is that health supersedes Jewish law. Therefore, excluding women, from a conference on women's health, demonstrates a failure to understand Jewish laws. Excluding anyone, from contributing to the health care of Jew's and Israeli's, is a failure to whole society. Why do we continue to support individuals, that will handicap our citizens, stymie medical progress, riot in the streets, and force arbitrary rules that benefit no one? This is NOT the work of righteousness, it is SELFISH.

This is how it works, first they force women to the back of buses, seperate ques at Rami Levis supermarket, then make a commotion about women singing, and now banning women from medical confrences, the ultra orthdox are trying to take us back to the dark ages.

Have women lecturers and if people are uncomfortable, they can skip those sessions.

If it is not, then Israel's Rabbinate is totally ignoring Torah teaching and its practice.

woman. How much the state of Israel pay these rabbis to say stupid things?

Do a search for PUAH and send them a message!

Women's issues restricted to lectures by men? How ridiculous can you get???

there are separate ques at rami levi??? where??? in Jerusalem ?? i shop RL all the time in my neighborhood. No problem here. This whole thing is nuts.

Just google "Machon Puah" and you'll find it. You'll see that the organization is Modern Orthodox, not Haredi. You'll also see photos of women (shock horror!). Apparently, Machon Puah do have events where they invite women to speak, but for this conference they wanted haredim to attend, and the haredim wouldn't come if there were women speaking. The problem is, that tolerance for intolerance = intolerance. And they're working so hard to include the haredim that they've managed to exclude half of the population, and all those who object to this.

to listen and to ask questions (how generous of them...). But no singing, God forbid!

advert at the bottom of the talkback list is very appropriate.

and at how many of these men's yeshiva did Nechama Labowitz lecture? In case you don't know Nechama was a very learned woman!

So, let them treat only men! What idiots! Send them to Iran!

The state of Israel (our tax money) is funding this so called organisation. How strange they brand any acotor who refuses to appear in the occupied terrotries a traitor while at the same time funding organisations that exclude women. Typical right-wing double standards at play.

Whenever Jews are supressed, they are quite doing their business. But when they have enough freedom, that's it, everything breaks out. This is result of one such thing.

Netanyahu has lost control, even Obama has realised this and is sending thousands of American soldiers to impose peace and the two state solution

The article is written in a very strange way. No one who "excluded" women is actually identified nor is there any evidence that the "exclusion" wasn't reasonable. Rather, offense is taken that no woman appears amongst the lecturers, even though most Machon Puah lectures include women. The people who condemn Machon Puah should give the name of a female gynecologist who should have be invited and wasn't. That female gynecologistshould confirm that she was available, that she had the relevant expertiese, and explain why she was a better choice then the male gynecologists.

Frankly, if I were a patient of any of the doctors participating in this conference, I would have to consider seeking out another physician...because I could no longer feel I could trust the judgment of one who would capitulate to this misogynistic religious bullshit.

Therefore it is definitely a men's issue! Of course women also want children, but they are not obliged to have according to Halacha. They rather are helping men to fulfill this Mitzva! ;-)

The rabbinate has completely lost touch with reality. Halachic separation of men and women has gone to an extreme that is without precedent in Judaism. No one with a brain in their head should attend a lecture on women's gynecological issues where leading women in the field were not invited to speak because of rabbinical tyranny.

boycott these idiot gynecologists... boycott idiot doctors.

The virtues of profound stupidity are obviously being overlooked...shame on all the people who would even think of permitting vile creatures such as women to participate and contribute. This conference should be held in Mecca or Qoms; the religious authorities over there would certainly highly approve of such gender segregation.

It is time to stop this madness.