Re: Kol Isha - Just the Facts, please!

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I'd think you can assume it as a given with almost any Ashkenazic, orthodox
shul in the United States no matter how (or how strongly) some of the
individual members may be opposed. Extend that to all those weddings and Bar
Mitzvahs & you think that might add up a bit.
                                            EK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Jacobowitz" <alexbjacobowitz (at) yahoo(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Kol Isha - Just the Facts, please!


> --- Sam Weiss <SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net> wrote:
> > At 01:49 AM 1/23/04, Yoel Epstein wrote:
> > >Perhaps some of you would like to compile a list of
> > specific gigs that
> > >were
> > >refused or cancelled because a female singer
> > participated in the
> > >band.  Then
> > >we might have a starting point for actually doing
> > something about this.
> >
> > Such a list would not even scratch the surface,
> > since the assumption of Kol
> > Isha very often precludes female soloists and bands
> > with a female singer
> > from even being considered at all.
>
> Au contraire, it WOULD scratch the surface -
> at least insofar as this list is concerned.
> As in other political opinions, there would
> most likely be "right", "centrist" and "left"
> versions of KI - and its implementation. If
> any gig were to be refused or cancelled for
> KI reasons, it would be most illustrative to
> see whether the sponsors give that as the
> reason, or whether they hide behind some kind
> of subterfuge. And since on this list
> we´ve only heard from the femails in this case, I
> wouldn´t mind hearing the other side´s view - those
> who are involved in the decision-making process.
>
> Bring it on!
>
> Alex
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
> http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
>
>

---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+