Re: Kol Isha: Theology and Halakha

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In a message dated 2/19/01 12:17:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com writes:


> As you might well know, the decision about women cantors (as Sh'lihot 
> Tsibur) was far more complex halakhically than the decision about women 
> rabbis.  But I ask you not to condemn the conclusion without having read 
> the responsum.
>  
> I do agree that the Conservative Movement has been more ready to reconsider 
> issues raised using the Halakhic Process than have the Orthodox.  But 
> that's why some Jews choose to be Conservative Jews.
>  
> 

Please do not understand my posts as denigrating the Conservative movement in 
any way. I never knew Isaac Klein, but I have had extensive contact with 
members of his family, many of whom will no longer affiliate themselves with 
JTS. In addition, I am familiar with the work of David Weiss Halivni. In 
fact, I have played at the UTJ. Part of the reason for Weiss Halivni's 
departure from JTS, as well as the Klein's disassociating with the movement, 
is precisely because Rabbi Roth and others have not followed the 
jurisprudential procedure as was laid down Finkelstein and others. In all 
fairness, I do not know anything more about Rabbi Gillman then what you 
quoted, but I think my response to his quote only becomes more poignant if it 
true that he would support the work of the current Law committee. I say this 
only to observe what I know to be so. I have no objection to JTS, per se, as 
it has to do what it's constituents think right. But I do not think that the 
Halachic process has been handled in the same manner in the last twenty years 
as it was before that. When I speak of Jewish Jurisprudence and Orthodoxy, it 
is only because the Orthodox movement is taking on the chin on this list over 
Kol Isha.

Kol Tuv,

Jordan