Judaism – like everything else – is sexist

Judaism – like everything else – is sexist

September 19, 2017 Opinion, Perspectives

When Jewish leaders express, unwittingly or not, an unwillingness to engage in the question of institutional patriarchy, that makes Jewish millennials angry. Invoking tradition in defence of sexist practices puts us in the same category as the American apologists wanting to maintain monuments to Civil War generals.

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