[HANASHIR:5985] Re: Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

we play the anniversary waltz at an anniversary celebration and have the
couple dance to it-- Jewish??  I think very much so..
Rabbi Richard Schachet
Valley Outreach Synagogue
www.valleyoutreach.com
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Subject: [HANASHIR:5984] Re: Edelweiss at a Bat Mitzvah service


> I was not implying that Edelweiss was a bad song.  It is just a secular
song
> with NO connection to the occasion of the bar mitzvah.  It is irrelevant
that
> it had Jewish composers, or that it represented resistance to the Nazis.
> Save Edelweiss for singing during the reception later, not in services.
>
> Brian
>
>

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