Really, really, really Reform

Jewish Pagans Break New Ground

Millennia ago, so the story goes, Abraham smashed his father's idols and founded the Jewish religion. Accordingly, his descendents' first goal was to build a fence around abstract monotheism, separating it from the Paganism in which it had taken root, and which, to them, represented all that Judaism was not. This explains Jews' second commandment, our moratorium on graven images, and our status as the first of the three major monotheistic faiths. Are Jewish Pagans, then, the ultimate contradiction in terms?

Apparently not to the author. I would guess that these people (all women in this story -- I wonder the significance of that) had almost zero understanding of Judaism and what it is all about, regardless of the Bat Mitzvahs and Seders they had.