In 2009, a book titled The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary was released. The 2007 Reform biennial convention hosted a men-only prayer service. But the men’s Haggadah is one of several recent initiatives designed for men and boys alone. Egalitarianism is a defining characteristic of the religion’s more liberal wings (Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative, among others). In the introduction, the authors explain their motives for the enterprise: “Men need the company of men, to be men.”įor the most part, gender segregation in Judaism, like strict Shabbat observance and the renunciation of shellfish, is a practice left to the Orthodox. Instead of solemnly intoning the 10 plagues that struck ancient Egypt-frogs, boils, lice, and so on-participants are asked to recite the scourges of manhood: impotence, hair loss, prostate cancer. In 2007, an organization called the Men of Reform Judaism published a Haggadah intended for men-only Passover Seders.
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