awful stupid idea. they usually have way faster davenings, lots of talking and fooling around, and no rav. i suppose if there would be a rav there…a COMPETENT QUALIFIED rav there it could be acceptable.
The one I attended didn’t have too much talking (probably no more than teens would have done in a regular shul anyway). We finished about twenty minutes before the main shul, primarily due to the fact that we didn’t have a sermon to listen to. 🙂
While we did not have a rav at the davening, we did have a competent adult lay leader who presided over the davening, oversaw the division of responsibilities and generally maintained decorum.
The Wolf