Re: Jewish music performance series

[Halsherm3 <Halsherm3...>]

In a message dated 9/23/99 2:53:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, elkahn (at) 
JTSA(dot)EDU 
writes:

<< The one major drawback--and I believe it's a big one--is that I cannot at
 this time invite solo women singers. Women instrumentalists are okay, but
 in the Orthodox tradition, women vocalists are not. I'm not sure about
 mixed choirs. These are not my personal beliefs, so I apologize to all the
 female singers for this lack of opportunity. There's simply nothing I can
 do about it. >>


I found this statement to be so completely offensive. Substitute the word 
jewish for the word female and read it again. How do you feel?

The reaction I had to this was purely from my gut. I realize that it wasn't 
meant to
be offensive but it was all the same (IMHO).

How do others feel?  Lynn

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