Re: "vent"

[Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>]

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From: "Jordan Hirsch" <trombaedu (at) earthlink(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: "vent"


> on 2/22/03 7:51 AM, Judith R Cohen at judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA wrote:
>
> > Telling Lorele, or me, or anyone else who sincerely thinks as well as
> > feels that kol isha tends to be handled in a way  unfair to women to go
> > "vent ourselves"in "some feminist group"is insulting, beside the point,
> > and unworthy of the intelligence of the person who  "suggested"it.
> Your ciriticism is well taken. My objection to Lorele's post had nothing
to
> do with her content. I should have said that she take her vent to a list
> where issues regarding the intersection of jewish practice and human
rights
> are discussed.  It is my feeling that this list is not such a place. One
of
> the reasons I feel this way is that this dialogue has never taken place
> without a number of posts which speak of normative Halachic pracitces of
> Judaism in the most vile and disdainful manner. To me, that is
unacceptable,
> and no grievance, no matter how deeply felt or how well founded justifies
> that kind of behavior.
>
> Jordan Hirsch

I've seen very few postings of the kind you mention.  Those who make such
postings should be corrected.  The few should not prevent civil discourse.
And, why take it out on a victim?


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