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Community has much more to worry about than kol isha
The kol isha singing issue is unbelievably small and petty and the height of hypocrisy and intolerance by the Orthodox; the Orthodox don’t own the Holocaust. All kinds of Jews died, including women and children – including girls.
Stanley Friedman, Israel
That means nothing to some small-minded Orthodox who think they are the judge of Jewish people.
It took months of talking to (finally) decide to have two services! That could have been decided in 10 minutes by sane, serious Jews.
Is this all that the South African Jewish community has to talk about – this utterly ridiculous trivial “argument”? And to worry about?
South Africa is in a bad state in very serious ways; rather think about the future of the Jewish community whose position is fragile, to say the least. What are you going to do when the bubble pops and the crunch comes?
How will the “problem of Jewish women and girls singing” look then?
The action is utterly selfish and stupid.