RE: Kol Isha becomes a reality

[Daniel B. Schwartz <SCHWARTZESQ...>]

Halacha does not really allow for that type of compromise.  But once there
is a valid contract, it can be enforced.

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Eliezer Kaplan
  Sent: Sun, March 25, 2001 12:28 PM
  To: World music from a Jewish slant
  Subject: Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality


  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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