Re: Kol Ishah from a Fancophone Slant

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Are they Sephardi? I don't think the Sephardim have that particular hangup!
                                                                        EK


----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Cohen <judithrc (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:50 PM
Subject: Kol Ishah from a Fancophone Slant


> hi, sorry for taking slight liberties with the name of this list... I had
to
> quote a message I just received. I'll be doing a small concert for the
VERY
> small Jewish community in Moncton, New Brunswick, possibly the most
> functionally bilingual (French-English) city in N. America. The prganizer
> had just told me it was an orthodox synagogue and so I asked whether he
was
> sure Kol Ishah wouldn't be a problem (I needn't, for my fellow list
members
> here, summarize my experiences in this direction. His reply:
> Si la synagogue est orthodoxe - pas de probleme pour "Kol Ishah"? J'ai
>
> "Mais pas du tout. Le concert se ferait dans la salle en bas, pas dans le
> sanctuaire, il n'y a absolument aucun probleme et d'ailleurs il y a deja
eu
> maints artistes feminins qui sont venus a Tiferes Israel."
>
> ("But not at all! [i.e. not a problem]. The concert would be in the
> downstairs hall, not in the sanctuary, there is absolutely no problem and
> besides, we've already had many women artists at Tiferet Israel".
>
> No comment, just thought I'd share this positive message with you...
> Judith
>
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