Excerpt from this day’s program:
…The reality is that those Jews who attend Reform temples for one day of Rosh HaShana one day for Yom Kippur and bar mitzvahs for their own and other children, the overwhelming majority don’t even know what the Western Well is let alone the struggle for “egalitarian” prayer, as the milquetoasts at the Jerusalem Post call it. And never mind the implicit insult to classical Jews who allegedly don’t believe in equality, which makes them bigots. Most American men who identify with a Reform Temple know nothing of putting on tefillin and so their wives have nothing to envy. This business of wanting to pray with men and wear a man’s prayer shawl and put on phylacteries is a form of transvestism that has nothing to do with the delusional feeling of being insulted by men who deny them the right to wear a talis and tefillin… |