Rabbi Says Women In Wigs ‘Will Be Burned In Hell’

One of Israel’s most powerful rabbis has ruled that women who wear wigs will be damned.

“Both she and her wig will be burned in hell,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas political party, said in a sermon Saturday to Jewish male seminary students.

According to Orthodox Jewish religious practice, married women cover their hair as a sign of modesty. However, many Orthodox Jews believe that realistic wigs are immodest, and some wig shops catering to Orthodox women have been vandalized.

Yosef said that if a woman wears a wig into a synagogue, she and her husband should be excommunicated.