Re: Kol Ishah again

[Kame'a Media <media...>]

Hi Bob:

"Ironic" indeed;  and "absurd".

Interesting to note that even in Iran, a woman is
allowed to sing on stage (again), --after a long prohibition
under the ayatollahs.

It is high time the medieval injunction against =kol isha=
be discredited and abandoned.

Wolf


"Judith R. Cohen" wrote:

> Hi, this is not to start another long thread, as there was one on this
> last year, but I just wanted to let you know that this week the Holy
> Blossom synagogue , where my daughter and I are doing a concert of
> Sephardic music later this month, phoned the large Sephardic Kehillah
> here in Toronto as part of their PR list. The Sephardic Kehillah told
> them they could not publicize an event which featured - you guessed it -
> a woman singing. This is about the fourth or fifth time this has
> happened to me in the Toronto Sephardic community: particularly ironic,
> since this is a repertoire kept alive by women such as the mothers,
> grand-mothers, aunts (and in some cases wives) of the men who make these
> decisions. Also ironic, because back in Morocco, where the community is
> from , and not that long ago, just 2-3 decades in most cases - this
> wasn't an issue and women even sang in at least one synagog8ue choir in
> Tangier.
> However, several people from the Portuguese (non-Jewish) community are
> coming, including the Consul - because after our concert of Portuguese
> village songs last month they want to learn more about Portugal's Jewish
> history! Take care, Judith
>

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