April 3, 2015, - 5:34 pm
EXPERT: Feminism Destroyed Passover (& Synagogue Attendance)
Feminism and the feminization of Judaism have caused Jewish men to stop celebrating Passover and attend synagogue, an expert on Judaism tells the Wall Street Journal. As with everything worth anything, if you chickify it, who the heck wants it?!
So, tonight at sundown both the Jewish Sabbath and the Jewish holiday of Passover (in Hebrew, “Pesach”) begin. And I wish my fellow Jews a Happy Passover. But I note that fewer Jews will celebrate the holiday with the traditional “Seder” dinner because Jewish men are fed up with the feminization of Judaism, which has hit all branches of the religion, but for the real thing: Orthodox Judaism, where the males are still the leaders in family and in religious ceremonies. Liberal (which also means obnoxious) Jewish women have taken over everything in the other sects of Judaism, and the men hate it. They’ve reacted by leaving.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal did a story on “Man Seders”–all-male dinners, which are held the week or two before Passover to teach ignorant, lapsed Jewish men how to conduct a Seder. The Seder is the dinner ceremony we Jews conduct the first two nights of Passover, to mark the slavery of the Jews in Egypt and our deliverance from it by G-d. In the article was this insightful quote by an expert, who explains why the male-bonding “practice seders” are necessary:
“Men are deserting synagogues,” says Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. “Some of this male bonding is designed to reinforce the sense that the synagogue is a place for men.”
Prof. Sarna points to the “feminization” of Judaism—where women became more dominant in a religion where men were traditionally the leaders—as helping to explain the new machismo.
By the way, you’ll note that these men are mostly men who are Conservative and Reform Jews, liberals who know a lot more about why they blindly love Barack Hussein Obama than they do anything about their own religion. Orthodox Jews–including and especially the men–are, as I’ve repeatedly pointed out on this site for more than a decade, much more conservative politically and much more likely to vote Republican (my synagogue voted about 95% for Mitt Romney). Orthodox Jewish men are still the leaders in synagogue, at home, and in religious observances. They know how to run a seder and don’t need this male-only Man Seder bonding.
It’s only the henpecked (by Jewish liberal women) less religious Jewish men who’ve felt unappreciated and unnecessary. And why not?
They voted for a President and a political philosophy that has made them unappreciated and unnecessary. And they chose watered down Judaism that did the same thing.
Glad that some of them are returning and sorta seeing the light with the Man Seders.
(By the way, few things are more gross than seeing a Jewish woman in a yarmulke (meant only for men), and usually it’s the most hideous women who insist on wearing those. It looks completely lesbionic. Just sayin’.)
Tags: Feminism, Jews, Passover
Although I am not Jewish, agree with you 100%. It has also brought down attendance to churches as well. We as believers in God must work to reverse this trend. A nation without God cannot stand on its own
Ron Dwyer on April 3, 2015 at 6:02 pm