Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality

[wiener <wiener...>]

Not all contracts are valid and enforceable, I have never seen a
reported case such as this one, and I am not speaking as a practicing
attorney, but I believe that Winston is correct in his legal analysis
of the described situation.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality


>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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>>             www.shirona.com
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