Q&A: The Third Way’s Position on Two Issues
The Third Way’s Position on Two Issues
Question
A. A minimalist leavened-food law (which I think is the current one) — when a hospital wants to prohibit bringing leavened food onto its premises during Passover, it has the right to enforce that.
B. A law permitting gender-segregated study programs at an institution of higher education that chooses to do so (I understand something like this is now being worked on).
What is the Third Way’s position on these issues when the laws were duly enacted by the legislative authority?
Answer
I can’t speak on behalf of the Third Way on issues that haven’t been agreed upon. I can state my own view.
A. Indeed, a hospital can enforce a minimalist leavened-food law, although in my opinion it is not right to do so.
B. I am completely in favor.
The question is not whether the laws were duly enacted, but what ought to be done (what ought to be legislated).
I agree with you. The point is that secular people (and especially the more extreme among them, like the Secular Forum) make noise even about laws like these, which are altogether completely legitimate.
I completely understand their fear — the idea is that we’ll turn into a kind of Iran.
So whether or not you are put off by slippery-slope arguments, expect that even the Third Way won’t have agreements with secular people on these matters (assuming your position is accepted there by the majority).
Some legal scholar from Tel Aviv University will no doubt petition the High Court of Justice against the law, and it’s really not at all certain that it would survive review by the Court.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/politics/article/16866001
Leaving a link here.