[HANASHIR:5972] Re: Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service

[Marjorie Hilton <margiehill...>]

Make him happy. Be glad that it is not Rabbi Richard's Ave Maria. Margie


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Rabbi Richard Schachet" <lvrabbi (at) lvcm(dot)com>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Subject: [HANASHIR:5970] Re: Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:58:25 -0700

Make him happy-- As long as it's not like a situation I had in a wedding
between 2 Jews who wanted Ave Maria sung-- (I refused)
Rabbi Richard Schachet
Valley Outreach Synagogue
www.valleyoutreach.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Schanerman <sschanerman(dot)dvh (at) tuhsd(dot)k12(dot)az(dot)us>
To: hanashir <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:29 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:5969] Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service


 > I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one.  The father of a bat
 > mitzvah-to-be has requested that I surprise his daughter by singing one
 > of his favorite songs, Edelweiss (yes, the one from The Sound of Music),
 > at her bat mitzvah service during his speech to her.  He wants me to
 > change the words "bless my homeland forever" to "bless my Michelle
 > forever".  I tried tactfully to suggest that the song has nothing to do
 > with anything but he's pretty adamant that the song is meaningful to
 > him.  Anyone else been in a situation like this?  Do I go ahead and make
 > him happy and sing it at the service or insist that it's not relevant to
 > a bat mitzvah service and refuse?
 > Susan Schanerman
 > Phoenix
 >
 >



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