RE: kol isha

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

This sounds super. Very clever too.  You see there are always ways of 
getting some changes to happen slowly, slowly.   It's slow, but it's 
steady.

I think Chabad is willing to do things that other ultra-Orthodox are not, 
especially if Chabad knows that not everyone in the audience will be 
Orthodox.  If getting a big band like Maxwell St. will help more of the 
general Jewish audience to come to their events, they will be looser.   But 
standards are different for those performing at Lubavitcher events per se, 
most especially if it's for insider Lubavitcher-born (=non baaley tshuve) 
hasidim.  Lubavitch uses different standards depending on the religiosity 
level of those they are being mekarev (=missionizing).  They will sometimes 
make some sacrifices in the short run to get more people in the long run.

I guess this means that you can not sing and neither can your other woman 
vocalist.  Too bad.


Reyzl


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From:  MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com]
Sent:  Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:13 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: kol isha

<<File: ATT00014.htm>>In a message dated 02/28/2001 4:24:19 PM !!!First 
Boot!!!, reyzl (at) flash(dot)net
writes:


> Perhaps find the girl yeshivas and the event
> organizers there.  You could get to the women organizations, which
> regularly make women's events and women's melave malkas for you to play 
at.
> Those women might, might be more amenable.  Or maybe claim that all your
> musicians are your brothers and cousins :).
>
>

Reyzl, this is very well-written, with I think a lot of undersanding.  The
way that I am having an impact on the frum community here is by inviting
their children into our Jr. Klezmer Orchestra.  The group comprises a dozen 
kids, three of whom are frum.  We played recently for a benefit for Skokie
Chabad (observing kol isha and clothing requirements rigorously), and are
only too thrilled to help expose that community to authentic Jewish musical 
traditions.  One of the band members is a girl, and plays the saxophone. 
 So
she will carry tradition onward in her community, from the inside out.  And 
I
think that is the way to go.

Lori

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