Re: "Kol (Isha) Afghanistan"

[Sam Weiss <samweiss...>]

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> > In general I don't think the Sephardim are as strict...

To which Jordan Hirsch wrote:
> 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 than the kind of theoretical halachic analysis which has started to
> supersede minhag in the Ashkenazic community.

Unfortunately as far as Kol Isha is concerned it will be a lose-lose situation, 
since male chauvinism is embedded in Sephardi Minhag separate and apart from 
Sephardi Halacha and/or Halachic observance.  I use "Sephardi" here loosely to 
refer to those Jewish communities who hail from Muslim countries.  I realize 
that I'm painting people with a broad brush with this assertion and that 
exceptions will abound, but the point needs to be made nevertheless.  
There!  Now we've brought this thread full circle.  


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