Re: KI

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

I am sorry if I do not seem sympathetic, but this statement is horribly
offensive to me, and quite frankly, I do not care how justified your
desire to sing in front of whatever audience you desire is, or whether
or not you or I or anyone else observes the demands of Halacha.
Suggesting that Kol Isha and burkas or Kol Isha and chastity belts are
the same is a polemical flame, and in my opinion should have been left
off the list. Your categorical assertion that God, religion, or Judaism
has nothing to do with Kol Isha may make you feel better, but it
suggests that Halacha has nothing to do with Judaism or God if it does
not meet the criteria ofyour version of twenty first century feminist
dogma. In fact, asserting that halachic demands do not reflect Judaism
is a very sly form of anti semitism.
Religions should be flexible, but what makes a religion a religion is
that it answers to it's own systems.

Jordan


>       but things like Kol Isha, Burkas, Chastity belts, (shall I
>      continue...?) are ALL things that men do to women. G-d,
>      religion, and our beloved Judaism have nothing to do with
>      these rules as such - only provide the "legitimization" for
>      this form of abuse. Women, representing 50% of humanity had
>      NO SAY in the CREATION of these so called "cultural" or
>      "religious" customs.
>

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