Re: KI "news to me"

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> In general I don't think the Sephardim are as strict, though being an
> Ashkenazi myself I don't know that I'm quite fully qualified to comment on
> the topic with any real authority. But Judith Frankel has performed at one
> of the local Sephardic Orthodox shuls. So, l'maaseh, I have at least one
> example.
> BTW I once got away with sneaking it in at MY shul- in a Purim schpiel ;-)
>                                                 EK

This is my experience as well. We will have to see what happens as this
generation of Ashkenazi trained Sephardi Rabbis comes to power. Also
interesting is the way in which minhag holds more power in the Sephardi
community that the kind of theoretical halachic analysis which has started to
supersede minhag in the Ashkenazic community.

Jordan

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