Sunday, June 20, 2004

Apparently a small group of orthodox rabbis in the U.K. believe that popular orthodox singer Mordechai Ben David is not frum enough. They have sent out appeals to the Jewish community not to see hos concert because the music is "immoral" and "a negative influence on young people".

I'm not sure how this came to be a story importnat enough for a major newspaper, but as one of the concerts' organizers put it, "there's always going to be extremists in every community but 99.99 per cent find this type of thing enjoyable, entertaining and uplifting".

"These trouble-makers really believe they are doing God's will, as do suicide-bombers, to be quite frank."

Ouch.

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