Last week, Esther Broner, known as the “Mother of the Women’s Seder,” died after a long struggle to subvert Orthodox Judaism and create a feminist alternative to the millennia-old celebration of Passover.
According to “Rabbi” Susan Fendrick, women’s seders are necessary “to add a feminist, woman-centered dimension to the observance of the universally Jewish holiday of Passover.”
This raises the question of why, if Passover is a universally Jewish holiday, there needs to be a separate seder that is not universally Jewish.
According to Fendrick, many children have already been trained in feminist Judaism, and now they are growing accustomed to gay Judaism (represented by a juicy, succulent fruit) as well:
Women’s seders and other Jewish feminist practices in connection with Passover have had their impact on the shape of the seder experience as a whole in many homes and institutions. Already there is a generation of children who would be confused if there were no Miriam’s cup on the table, filled with water (and often paired with Elijah’s cup of wine)—a symbol of redemption and possibility. And in many homes the placement of an orange on the seder plate—whether to represent the importance of women’s full inclusion in Judaism, or to symbolize the need for gay and lesbian equality in Jewish life—is already de rigueur.
Looks like it’s time to wheel out the golden calf again…
Feminist subversion of traditional religion is nothing new, and has been a thorn in the side of Christians as well as Jews for some time now; even Muslims are running into it these days. One might ask why feminists are so insistent on attacking “patriarchal” religions in a country such as the United States, where freedom of religion gives them the opportunity to start their own faith. The answer is that if they did, it would last at longest for one generation, as the feminists would be too busy ensuring that they did not create stable families, instead aborting many of their children, engaging in lesbian relationships and alienating the boys among them to the point that they would utterly reject their mothers’ faith.
Therefore, as with so many other institutions, feminists choose not to innovate and compete, but rather play the role of parasites, leeching off the shortsighted tolerance and goodwill of the men who keep them running. Inevitably, once an institution has been totally compromised by feminism, it fails and the feminists run off to find a new one. In the meanwhile, you-know-who gets really pissed off.
