Re: Jewish music performance series/from tcg

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

I personally have great respect for the orthodoxy... but many times their 
take on women is often not respectful. It dwells somewhere between fear and 
contempt. It does no good not to take issues with this if you are a woman, 
or love women, or love people, since women are people.
Trudi the G


>From: TROMBAEDU (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Jewish music performance series
>Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:18:40 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/23/99 10:45:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Halsherm3 (at) aol(dot)com writes:
>
><<  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
>   >>
>
>I find all these posts condemning the Kol Isha problem out of hand to be
>offensive in the extreme. To dismiss in a wholesale fashion a legitamately
>derived position of Jewish Law because it doesn't match your personal
>viewpoints is intellectually dishonest. Halacha is a complex process, which
>deserves respect, even if one chooses not to observe it. Judaism was not
>invented in the last 200 years, and the halachic process, which for some
>leads to some rather stringent rules, has been an essential part of Jewish
>Life from the beginning.  To treat it with such contempt borders on anti
>semitism.  The kind of posts I have read from this list on the subject are
>typical products of late 20th century thinking: An unfettered sense of
>entitlement and self righteousness.
>Everyone is free to observe or not observe Jewish Law. But for those of us
>who choose to observe, nothing is more precious. I do not condemn those who
>do not, it is not my place to. But I do urge them to show respect at least
>for those that do, and also, to perhaps become better informed about it, so
>as to know that which you reject.
>
>Jordan
>
>

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