Rabbi

Others say that they could serve even as president, because...

Rav Chaim David Alevi writes in the Tshuva that he thinks that even according to the Rambam should be able to be president of a shul because it's only a din in forcefully taking a position of serara.

But when a person is voted to that position then maybe even the Rambam would agree that a woman is allowed to take that position.

So it seems that that's the shita of some poskim.

I just want to add that

that there's another concern over here also.

A shul president typically works very closely with the rabbi.

The rabbi and the shul president are in constant contact with each other.

They're always meeting with each other, always talking to each other about every single issue that comes up in the shul, and that's the shul president's role.

It's probably not a great idea to have set up a situation where the person you work closest with, even though in the business world,

al-karchenu, that happens all the time, and you don't really have your choice.

But for a married man and a married woman, who are both frum, to be constantly working with each other, and they're not married to each other, to constantly be working with each other, and have all this time spent alone with each other, even if they manage to technically get around, the Yisram of Yichud is probably not a very good idea.

It's probably not the wisest thing.

to do.

I know when I meet with women in my shul, if a woman wants to come talk to me, I will not meet with a woman unless my wife is in the house.

If you don't want my wife to hear, I'll tell my wife not to listen, but she's got to be within earshot anyway.

She's got to be in the house.

I want her walking in and out of the room even once in a while or just around the area.

I don't want to deal with that kind of... I mean, that's just a general public policy thing in terms of...

avoiding any sorts of accusations or anything like that, but it's also just a good idea in terms of how closely men and women should be interacting with each other.