[Avodah] Kol Isha

[Zev Sero]

On 6/12/2011 12:00 PM, cantorwolberg at cox.net wrote:
> The Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel Yonah Metzger issued a formal
> responsum on September 25^th justifying their actions and urging the
> army to arrange that only men should sing at military events where
> many observant men are present. Is it really forbidden for Jewish men
> to listen to women singing?

Certainly.  This is well known.

> Was there any halakhic justification for the soldiers to walk out?

So says the Chief Rabbi.

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Zev Sero        If they use these guns against us once, at that moment
zev at sero.name   the Oslo Accord will be annulled and the IDF will
                 return to all the places that have been given to them.
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