[Avodah] fashion models and opera singers

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From: "Chana Luntz" _chana at kolsassoon.org.uk_ 
(mailto:chana at kolsassoon.org.uk) 





R'n SP wrote:
> A former student of mine is a very successful budding opera
>  singer.  Although she knows that halacha does not permit kol 
> isha  in performance (even in the most lenient piskei halacha 
> that I'm aware  of, at least) [--old R'n SP]

In response, R'n CL wrote:




>>>>Sigh, rejected from Areivim again on the grounds that it  is more suited
to Avodah:
....assuming that there is no
issur on a non  Jewish men, why should a Jewish women not be able to earn
a living performing  for non Jewish men and women (knowing that no frum
Jewish man would be found  in an opera house). <<
 
>>>>>
But it would be OK for a woman to perform for a non-frum Jewish man, who  
might well be found in an opera house?   There are at least some  Jews living in 
every city in the world big enough to have an opera house, and  it's 
reasonable to assume that Jews -- being among the most cultured and  affluent people in 
every city -- will sometimes go to the opera.
 
If it's not OK for a Jewish man to hear a woman sing I don't know how it  can 
be OK for a Jewish woman to sing in a venue where there is a very high  
probability that at least one member of the audience is a Jewish man.
 
 
BTW Chana should not feel bad about having her post rejected by arvm and  
reposted to avodah, because here on Avodah the subject header is still  directly 
related to the substance of the posts, whereas on arvm the thread has  become 
increasingly divorced from its ostensible subject line.




--Toby  Katz
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