Contents:
- MEET THE GAY RABBI
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
- GAY RABBIS
- MAJOR US JEWISH GROUP ELECTS 1ST OPENLY GAY RABBI
- ISRAEL’S FIRST GAY MASORTI RABBI TAK THE PULP
- AM I A GAY RABBI, OR AM I A RABBI WHO IS GAY?
- JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
- THE OPENLY GAY RABBI WHO’S WORKG TO CHANGE THE FACE OF JUDAISM
MEET THE GAY RABBI
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FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A gay rabbil stunt nied ordatn by a liberal semary New York was weled to the rabbate Jesalem, breakg a longstandg taboo agast homosexualy the Orthodox muny.
GAY RABBIS
Many young gay Orthodox Jews who would have prevly left the fold are stayg “and ’s almost unimagable for them to not have a place, ” he ntued. The Renstctnist and Reform movements began ordag gay rabbis the 1980s, wh the Conservative movement followg 2006.
MAJOR US JEWISH GROUP ELECTS 1ST OPENLY GAY RABBI
For his part, Lans do not believe that the Biblil prohibn of same-sex relatns appli to people for whom homosexualy is “not an act of voln” and thks that there is room for LGBT Jews the wir muny.
ISRAEL’S FIRST GAY MASORTI RABBI TAK THE PULP
Rabbi Nathan Lop Cardozo, another proment rabbi who has ocsnally e to nflict wh the Orthodox mastream, agreed wh Lans, tellg JTA that while he didn’t have a rabbic source to back up, he believ that “the prohibn [on homosexual acts] only appli to those who are purely heterosexual.
AM I A GAY RABBI, OR AM I A RABBI WHO IS GAY?
Assertg that Orthodox views of homosexualy have been slowly changg, he said that there is a new awarens that “they’re not pedophil, they’re not people of falsehood or whatever, they’re good people. Lans said that the genis of his transformatn om the mastream Orthodox posn, which views homosexualy as a grave s, me several s ago after he explaed to members of his own ngregatn the Uned Stat why he had cled to attend a nference anized by the Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis after the Reform-affiliated group passed a rolutn on LGBT cln.
And while the rabbi ially uldn’t image gay Jews wantg to rema the Orthodox muny, let alone bee Jewish scholars unr s spic, he now has a different view. “I thk we will start wh the gay muny self and if there is the abily to create a real muny on the relig level will lead to acceptance or maybe will be limed for a long perd, ” he said. The Renstctnist Rabbil Associatn has elected an openly gay rabbi to lead the natnal rabbic Jason Kle, the executive director of Hillel at the Universy of Maryland, Baltimore County, sce 2006, was elected to lead the RRA durg s 39th annual nventn New Orleans, which end on Wednday.
It is the first natnal rabbic associatn of one of the major Jewish nomatns the Uned Stat to be led by a gay man, acrdg to the was ordaed by the Renstctnist Rabbil Council 2002 and graduated om Columbia Universy 1997.
JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
Two years after Israel’s Masorti (Conservative) Movement approved the ordatn of gay and lbian rabbis, the natn’s first homosexual Masorti rabbi has taken his place at the pulp. So he went to New York, where he spent four years workg toward both a rabbil ordatn and an MA Talmud and Halacha (Jewish Law) om the Jewish Theologil Semary, which has been ordag openly gay and lbian stunts the Conservative Jewish movement sce 2007.
THE OPENLY GAY RABBI WHO’S WORKG TO CHANGE THE FACE OF JUDAISM
Israel’s Masorti Movement shifted s own stance two years later, unrollg a landmark lg April 2012 that paved the way for Israeli-traed lbian and gay rabbis to jo the Conservative movement here.