Wednesday, March 5th, 2008...11:43 pm

Concert Ban Sounds Sour Note For Some

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On the Talkline With Zev Brenner radio program, Schmeltzer took a different view. Noting that the text of the ban closely mirrored that of an earlier Israeli ban of an Avraham Fried and Yaakov Shwekey Jerusalem concert in August 2007, Schmeltzer said it was only a matter of time before the ban came to America. His concert was targeted simply because of its prominence, he said.
Rabbi Teitelbaum, on the other hand, does not oppose bans on principle. “If there’s no other way to solve the problem, then you can ban something,” he said. “But there are a lot of things we must do before banning things, such as solving the problem at beis din.JewishPress.com

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