Re: Making Judaism Cool

[Marvin <physchem...>]

I searched for Rosanne and, much to my suprise, quickly found her personal
home page at http://members.tripod.com/~eskrae/.  There is a link to the
Rosanne Show if you scroll down, and a place there to send
e-mail.  Now, who wants to be the one to ask her?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Cahan-Simon" <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: Making Judaism Cool


> Nu, does anyone have Roseanne's email address so we could ask her?
>
> Ari Davidow wrote:
>
> > The only problem with that statement is that it =does= require you
> > to presume. Not that I'm entirely against presumption, but when it
> > leads to dismissal, surely facts are in order? Most important,
> > surely there is something to discuss here other than one's unsupported
prejudices regarding whether or not Roseanne has qualifications to
> > teach kabbalah -- perhaps the author's words? (But, maybe you're right.
> > The author of the article, too, seems to presume that coupling Roseanne
> > with the idea of kaballah study is sufficiently ludicrous as to be
> > worthy of a smirk, rather than checking the facts.)
> >
> > ari
> >
> > At 09:52 AM 6/22/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >*Nothing* at all to do with her being a woman--a bizarre inference?
> > >Everything to do w/ what I presume is her lack of appropriately deep
layers
> > >of knowledge (for the gaining of which some Jewish education as a child
or
> > >teenager would presumably *not* suffice).
> > >
> > >I *might* be wrong about that--but it's not likely.
> > >
> > >--Robert Cohen
> > >
> > >
> > >>Nu?
> > >>Why not?  Maybe she has the yeshiva education to do so? ... Is the
problem
> > >>because she's a woman or what?
> > >>One of the best Kabbalic scholars I ever met was a woman...and a
> > >>Lubavicher.
> > >>  If they didn't have a problem with that why should you.
> > >
> > >[--Trudi]
> > >
> > >
> > >>>From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>>I'll sidestep the Judaism being cool debate until I've considered and
> > >>>reflected more on the phenomenon (if then), but as a far as Roseanne,
the
> > >>>issue is not whether she cares about being Jewish, contributes to
Jewish
> > >>>causes (I'm delighted if she does), or, for that matter, wants to
study
> > >>>Judaism--though Kabbalah would usually be considered an inappropriate
> > >>>place
> > >>>to begin.  The issue is whether she should be *teaching* (which is, I
> > >>>assume, what is meant by "leading") Kabbalah studies (which, at least
on
> > >>>its
> > >>>face, sounds absurd).  The answer is almost certainly No.
> > >>>
> > >>>--Robert Cohen
> > >
> >
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