Patriarchs, Masculinity and the Blessing of Jewish Feminism

"How can we, as Jewish men, look inside ourselves to take up an honest reckoning of what we have been trained to be? If those claiming “me too” are telling truths about the ways in which so many people have experienced male aggression, domination or violence, then men’s work of stepping forward to respond to “me too” requires an honest telling about the ways --more subtle that we can ever imagine-- that we have been trained to be the perpetrators and enablers of that violence. " Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers the Contemporary Rosh Hashanah Service sermon on Monday, September 10, 2018.