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Re: Kol Isha - Just the Facts, please!

At 02:19 PM 1/26/04, Eliott Kahn wrote:
>Rabbis who write opinions are influenced by their social milieu. And, 
>inevitably, I believe they will decide--probably from pressure exerted by 
>their wives and daughters--that during the present times, when women are 
>so much a part of the work force, KI is no longer appropriate.

This may describe the social milieu of some Orthodox rabbis, but the 
countervailing social pressures on at least as large a community of 
Orthodox rabbis is the the Frummer-than-thou phonomenon (or the 
Chumra-of-the-Month Club), which causes them to always look warily over 
their right shoulder.

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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ


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