Re: yes it is , no it isn't, yes it is, no it isn't........

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

Judith et al. Please note that there is more than one Alex on this 
list.     One of them regards himself as an ardent feminist and the females 
in his life seem to agree!  He lives in Minnesota.




>Alex suggests, I think inaccurately:
>
> > >  The woman singer has no
> > > problem exercising her profession.
>
>and more accurately, if , I think, lamentably,
> > She may sing
> > > for other women, for minors or for non-Jews. > She can also sing for 
> men who don´t
> > > keep the laws of
> > > > Kol Isha.
>
>
>Logically, one would think that freedom would be:
>she has the right to sing for anyone she feels like singing for or has
>been professionally hired to sing for.
>
>Naturally, others - men or whoever else - have the freedom not to
>listen, and to remove themselves from earshot.
>
>If she doesn't have the freedom to sing where men who observe Kol Isha
>might be present, that SIMPLY ISN'T FREEDOM.
>
>Sorry.
>
>Ah! a light  at the end of the tunnel! going back to the beginning of
>his message, Alex says:
>
>'> As the saying goes, "your freedom to extend
> > your arm stops at the end of my nose."
>
>Ah, you finally noticed!!
>Exactly.
>So, men shou;d stop exercising their freedom when their arms extend to
>women's noses - and their voices.
>Good to know you agree after all, Alex.
>
>Judith
>

Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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