RE: Kol Isha

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Lori,

Traditional doesn't mean you have to go to a shul with a mekhitsa = 
Orthodox.  You can be traditional and shomer shabes and belong to a 
Conservative or even Reform synagogue.
It also does not in any way imply that one is intolerant of Orthodox.  You 
just don't need to be part of that system or accept that you have to live 
your life under those terms.  You can be halakhic and traditional about 
everything else.

Reyzl


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From:  MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com]
Sent:  Friday, September 24, 1999 2:52 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Kol Isha

This is all logical and I hear your outrage, Shira, but we are talking 
apples
and oranges.  If you are Jewish and traditional, then kol isha is one of 
the
threads in your tapestry.  Not all the threads that make up the tapestry of 
traditional Judaism fit into the contemporary sensibilities, which is why 
so
many Jews belong to liberal movements.  But there is a great deal of good 
in
Orthodoxy as well, and it would be a pity to cut ourselves off from that 
good
because one of the halachic restrictions rubs us the wrong way as women.

I think that tolerance all around would make the Jewish world a more 
heimish
and interesting place for all of us.

Good shabbas and good yontif...let's get back to music!

Lori (Maxwell Street)



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