KI

[Leonard Koenick <lkoenick...>]

This annual thread has recently devolved into wonderful examples of our
diversity.  It should be clear by now that the notion that there is only
one way to view this is contrary to Jewish history and tradition.  One
need only look to the Talmudic arguments interpreting this and that.  Or
no farther than the Haggadah with its magical transformation of ten
plagues to 50 and then to 100.  As for the recent anecdotes of various
interpretations, we have always been good at devising ways around
harmful strictures; witness the "Shabbos Goy" or the Eruv that allows
some to carry objects within their "home." 
 
As for me, I remember listening to Cantor Sue Roemer years ago here in
Washington and thinking "what a horrible waste it has been throughout
countless generations to deprive us of the ability to hear such feeling
and be moved by it, and for half of us to have the ability to express
those feelings suppressed."
 
It is probably time - if not already past time - for this thread to move
to techniques and tactics for dealing with and overcoming the
professional and economic harm that KI creates.
 
Leonard Koenick