Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I think any 'Orthodox' person that would knowingly cause you loss of parnasah 
by cancelling a performance is a person who had better do a bit of soul 
searching! There's something very hypocritical about all that (in light of the 
famous story about Hillel- the one about love thy neighbor as thyself- the rest 
is commentary). 
                                    EK



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: shirona 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 1:35 PM
  Subject: Kol Isha becomes a reality


  I have to share this dose of reality...  it finally happened to me.

  I was asked to organize and perform at a private party, an Israeli style 
Kumzits, with a concert-like presentation of old Israeli ballads, a sing-along, 
and a keyboard player to accompany me and play throughout the evening.  It was 
to be at an expensive restaurant, an up-scale event with good money.  Three 
daughters were organizing this for their mother's 70th birthday.

  Everything was confirmed, dates, fees, program outline... and then it 
happened.  One of the sisters is married to an orthodox man.  Of course no one 
thought of this before - but the orthodox man would HAVE to perform the 
obligatory Kol Isha boycott... Never mind that 98% of the people at the party 
are non-orthodox - it was a matter of Shlom-bayit, and I was cancelled...   So 
there it is, alive and well in the year 2001.   The price?  On top of the 
ideological outrage, it was a serious loss of "Parnasa" for me, and I depend on 
it for a living.

  Without appropriate words for closing,

  Shirona  
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