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Re: Jewish music performance series/from tcg
- From: TROMBAEDU <TROMBAEDU...>
- Subject: Re: Jewish music performance series/from tcg
- Date: Mon 27 Sep 1999 20.51 (GMT)
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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