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Jewish group in S. Africa: Women not barred from singing

By GIL STERN STERN SHEFLER

MAY 2, 2012 15:22

The leader of a Jewish group in South Africa on Wednesday rejected claims women were almost excluded from singing at a Jewish event on religious grounds. Avrom Krengel, the head of the South African Jewish Federation, which organized the Israeli Independence Day ceremony in Johannesburg last week, said his organization came under no pressure from Haredi Jews to bar women from singing on stage.

"We received no opposition to woman singing at [Independence Day] whatsoever," wrote Krengel in response to an inquiry. Last Monday The Jerusalem Post ran a story in which a Jewish group in South Africa said women were almost excluded from the ceremony because haredi Jews object to women singing in public because of their faith.

Rabbi Robert Jacobs of the South African Center for Religious Equality and Diversity (SACRED), a group affiliated with progressive Judaism, said women sang at the event in a mixed-gender choir as part of a last minute compromise. The SAZF did not respond on time for its comment to be included in the article.

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