Re: Jewish music performance series/from tcg

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In a message dated 9/27/99 4:14:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
goobietheg (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:

<< 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 >>

Trudi, my personal feelings are much more in line with yours than with most 
other Orthodox. But it is precisely because of that that I feel the argument 
in favor of a more liberal position must come from within Halacha if it is to 
have any relevance.
Those women who are not Orthodox do not feel this in the same way. Those 
women who are Orthodox and don't mind the strictures, (and there are more 
than you know, AND THEYARE INTELLIGENT, WELL EDUCATED, AND SOPHISTICATED) 
aren't going to change anything. And those women who are Orthodox but chafe 
at these laws are not going to accept overturning them just because we have 
figured out that they may not have the same applicability today as they once 
did. Remember, Orthodoxy is about the integrity of the system as well as the 
observance. I am one who believes relief can be found within the system, but 
it needs to be fought out on the halachick battleground.

Jordan

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