Re: kol isha

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

At 11:10 PM 2/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>just curious.....would the women out there who are offended by the kol isha 
>issue, also choose NOT to attend an event where men were excluded, like the 
>women's seder?

It's not necessarily an equivalent action, Winston. I can't speak to the 
specifics within the Orthodox community, but certainly within the feminist 
movement, all-women events are, in part, a reaction to a society that is 
male-dominant and often woman-exclusionary (hopefully, less so today, than 30 
years ago, but certainly not to such a degree that the issues have become 
irrelevant), nor are such events as common, or as large, or as economically 
significant as the men-only events.

ari

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