Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

I can see the cancellation of the performance for shalom bayit on such an 
occassion, but you should have gotten paid.  a contract is a contract and 
unless there was something said at the time you were hired about kol isha 
being a way out for them, they have a moral and possibly legal obligation to 
pay you even though you did not perform.

winston
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>From: "Eliezer Kaplan" <zelwel (at) earthlink(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality
>Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:28:28 -0600
>
>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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