[HANASHIR:12846] Re: [HANASHIR:12832] Re: Adding Pro Singers To Choir, etc.

[elerner1 <elerner1...>]

On 11/17/02, Jaugshir (at) aol(dot)com wrote: 

>our board passed a resolution that volunteer choir members had 
>to be congregants.  I think this was a mistake as it effectively 
>evicted some very dedicated choir members and created hard feelings 
>among others that had been singing side by side with them for years.

Did the board consult your choir at all when it made that decision? Like you  I 
also have been volunteering for years almost every saturday amongst other loyal 
volunteer singers.  One is a non Jewish professional who has been with us for 
years and years and years, but that is not the current issue in our case. The 
issue is that in our case, the board decided that the choir who comes most 
shabbat morning during the entire year for the more than 50 years or more (not 
all the same people, lol) and wants to be there should only sing once a month, 
for various reasons I as well as other choir members and other congregational 
members I have spoken with  do not understand. The choir was never consulted 
for their input  on this issue. We were totally bypassed and suprised with this 
decision on a shabbat morning before services.  I think this is a very poor 
approach to the over all picture of what religion and Jewish music  is all 
about. Why is it that temple boards seem to be so adep!
t at causing strife and hard feelings instead of more community?

Ellen Lerner (cantorial solist, Congregation Etz Chaim)
Volunteer choir member, Temple B'rith Kodesh
Rochester, New York.


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