Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?

Kill_The_Rich · 2011-07-17T18:51:42+00:00

Modern women are more religious than modern men, so it seems likely that less restrictive/oppressive religions would start to become more feminine...the super-organism is just reflecting the shared-traits of its constituent organisms.

They cite Jewish feminism as a model for the movement: Just as feminists in the '60s and '70s found new ways to connect to Judaism, through their women-only study groups and female life-cycle rituals, men must now carve their own version of that path.

People now have access to information in a split second and can research the claims made by ideologues with little effort. Blind faith is losing out to informed skepticism, so these faith-based ideologies are losing their flock, and the power that comes from them. As such, it makes sense that they would join together when facing a common enemy (reason)...but it's still pretty ironic considering the Abrahamic faiths are so fundamentally patriarchal (i.e. God the father), while feminists claim to oppose patriarchy so vehemently.

2011-07-17T15:13:35+00:00

Of course they try to squeeze in jab at us in the article.

But that aside, they miss a serious aspect of judaism in modern society and that is its decentralization, there are lots of smaller minions that are literally done in people's backyards these days. Now if you factor that in, there is a probably still a disparity but a lesser one. As someone who "fled right after their bar mitzvah", despite the fact that the synagogue I went to has a spectacular rabbi who I love the sermons of I can give a good reason: its fucking boring.

You don't need to make it more male centric, you need to make it more interesting in the first place.

Another reason is that when it comes to leading services and things of that nature, it was a male only role. Men stayed because it was up to them to carry on the tradition, now that it is not solely the burden of men there is less guilt/pressure for not taking that path. The "feminization" may just be giving men a chance to show how they felt about doing this stuff all along.

Lastly, intermarriage. Judaism on all levels has never been extremely welcoming of people who marry others with different religions if they don't convert, and they have lost a lot of people because of this.

chavelah · 2011-07-17T12:49:21+00:00

Sorry but its a case of chickens coming home to roost

ManThoughts · 2011-07-17T20:16:52+00:00

Slate wrote a weird headline. Jews are a religion and an ethnic group, but the way it is worded sounds like men in the ethnic group are declining.

Men are going to continue to leave mainstream religions, with good reason, as these religions sell out to the Goddess Cult

Title	Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?
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