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Re: because of mixed dancing

In a message dated 6/1/01 6:47:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, judithc (at) 
YorkU(dot)CA 
writes:


> I don't know what other papers this showed up in, but today in the
> Toronto Star, (before the news broke about the Tel Aviv beach bombing,)
> a paragraph appeared saying that the Orthodox rabbi who had performed
> the wedding ceremony for the couple at whose wedding party the building
> collapsed last week, had said that perhaps this had happened because men
> and women were dancing together at the recpetion. Tamar and I both are
> expressing our total horror at this statement, if indeed he made it.
> 

The Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Lau, has already condemned this statement. 
As he should.

Jordan Hirsch

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