[Avodah] More on Reviving a Ritual of Tending, to the dead

[daniel at kolberamah.org]

Quoting David Riceman <driceman at optimum.net>:
> The second is his opinion that mixed seating in synagogues violates the
> prohibition of uv'hukoseihem lo seileichu (ibid. pp. 231-232). Apparently
> he viewed the impetus for mixed seating to be a desire to emulate
> churches. Again I find that puzzling since my friends-and-relations who
> attend conservative synagogues find mixed seating no more surprising
> there than anywhere else in modern American life, and find our habit of
> sitting separately in the synagogue extremely weird.

Interesting also because, TTBOMK, mixed seating was not a feature of  
the earliest German reformers, because they wanted to be more like the  
Lutherans who had separate seating in their churches!