I'm not saying Jews are saints. I was brought up as a Jew. The sexism involved in dividing the men from the women in prayer is lamely conservative. This is a tribal, political, patriarchal matter as much as a religious one.

Judaism is at odds with itself because monotheism is based largely on desert culture, whereas Jewish comedy and humility derive from Jewish history which undermined Jews' monotheistic faith, with secular humanistic doubts (as in Ecclesiastes and Job).