FEMALE CANTORS SEEK RECOGNITIO N This article below ties in very nice with something my blogger friend Lemon posted about on her blog , the full article which can be found here . Food for thought. A lot of thought. Women's voice is indecent - or is it? Female cantors slowly emerging as national-religious sector's next big trend, but face criticism, accusations of indecency by Smadar Shir In recent years, the world of national-religious women has been slowly but surely revolutionized. It started with female litigators who appear before rabbinical courts, which was unheard of just a decade ago, and continued with women attending Torah and Gemara classes in yeshivot, which produced women scholars who are already viewed as halachic rulers. The next big trend, though still evolving in secret, is women cantors. The odds are against them. Since early childhood, they have been told that hearing a woman sing is indecent. If they were men, their destiny would have been different, but t...