The world's most authoratitive Sephardi rabbi says that a woman can chant the Megillah on Purim for men if there is no man capable of reading it, according to Ha'aretz.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Israel, said the prohibition against men listening to a woman singing would not apply because chanting a sacred text was different.
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Clive Lawton is co-founder of Limmud and CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council
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