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Contents:

• TOP UK RABBI SAYS GAY ACCEPTANCE IS ‘FANTASTIC,’ SPARKG NTROVERSY
• SYNAGOGUE APPOTS GAY RABBI FIVE YEARS AFTER REJECTG LBIAN
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• RPECTED GAY RABBI PASS AWAY LONDON AGED 77
• LONDON RABBI PREACH INCLIVY TOWARD GAY PEOPLE AND SETS OFF AN UPROAR
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• GAY RABBIS
• AM I A GAY RABBI, OR AM I A RABBI WHO IS GAY?
• FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
• UK GAY RABBI MAK WEDDG PLANS
• RABBIS LLS FOR RPECT FOR GAYS

TOP UK RABBI SAYS GAY ACCEPTANCE IS ‘FANTASTIC,’ SPARKG NTROVERSY

Leadg Sephardic figure Joseph Dweck cricized for praisg change attus to homosexuals; Israeli chief rabbi lls ‘hery’. The Uned Kgdom’s top Sephardic rabbi beme the center of an ternatnal ntroversy after he praised societal acceptance of homosexualy as a “fantastic velopment. “I did not say that homosexual acts were fantastic.

(JTA) — The Uned Kgdom’s top Sephardi rabbi beme the center of an ternatnal ntroversy after he praised societal acceptance of homosexualy as a “fantastic velopment. Fchley Reform Synagogue north London has appoted an openly gay rabbi jt five years after rejected a lbian Rabbi to be the muny’s spirual head. Yterday, they announced that Rabbi Rorick Young, the openly gay assistant rabbi at the Wt London Synagogue would bee the spirual head of the Fchley muny om November of this year.

Exprsg light at appotg Fchley’s first gay Rabbi, synagogue chairperson Debbie Jacbs said: “We are lighted to be welg Rabbi Young to lead Fchley Reform Synagogue to an excg new future and thrilled to have been able to appot somebody of his libre as our Prcipal Rabbi. Rabbi Young, an Oxford graduate jos a growg list of openly gay rabbis wh the Brish Jewish muny. Both the Reform and Liberal movements accept homosexualy as a part of life and enurage the ordatn of openly gay clergy.

SYNAGOGUE APPOTS GAY RABBI FIVE YEARS AFTER REJECTG LBIAN

Last year, the Liberal Judaism movement beme the first mastream relig group to Bria offer gay marriag followg the troductn of the Civil Partnership Act. Liberal Judaism lnch gay marriage ceremoni Bra.

The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam. Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

Friends and lleagu of one of the first openly gay rabbis to be ordaed the UK have paid tribute to her, after she died on Saturday aged 77. Together wh a group of iends, Rabbi Sheila Shulman found London’s gay and lbian synagogue, Be Klal Yisrael (BKY), 1990. She quickly set about welg everyone, pecially lbian and gay Jews.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Judaism and Homosexualy: A Brief History Tel Aviv Pri Para Tourists to Brg Around $40 Milln Expelled From Hillel, LGBTQ Jews Are Out the Closet, Into the Cold He knew he was wadg dangero waters. ” The next hour was voted to explorg the ancient history of homosexualy and the relevant Torah and Talmudic texts.

” Rabbi Joseph Dweck, April 10, Wikiweck / Wikimedia CommonsDweck’s lecture emphasized that homosexual acts themselv are forbidn by Torah — and that this won’t change. But qutned societal attus toward gay muny members, nmng those who qutn whether to let openly gay men receive ual Torah honors.

RPECTED GAY RABBI PASS AWAY LONDON AGED 77

“‘Should we put them [gay people] up to the Torah?

“The entire revolutn of femism and homosexualy our society is a fantastic velopment for humany.

“I did not say that homosexual acts were fantastic, ” he said, before referrg to the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonis. ” Unr prsure om Mansour, Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi (and cintally Margal Dweck’s uncle), nounced the general issue of homosexualy as “nonsense and hery that were uttered opposn to the foundatns of our fah the holy Torah.

LONDON RABBI PREACH INCLIVY TOWARD GAY PEOPLE AND SETS OFF AN UPROAR

He has zero rpect for other rabbis and holds his personal opns and terpretatns as a way out for the homosexual muny.

” But the fight reflects much more than munal ambivalence toward homosexualy. Dweck jt tend to let people know that gay people are people too. Kev Spacey has addrsed his ntroversial 2017 statement which he me out as gay rponse to Anthony Rapp’s accatn of sexual misnduct.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

He said some members of his team disagreed wh the urse of actn but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement which Spacey revealed he was gay. “The gay muny had been prsurg me for a very long time about g out, ” he said.

Part Two of a two-part story of a gay rabbil stunt the Reform Movement.

Yterday Ari shared his place the history of openly gay rabbil stunts.

GAY RABBIS

In 2008, I ma the cisn to enter rabbil school as an openly gay man.

My ncerns centered on one ma qutn: what would my gay and Jewish muny be like? But, I thought, “I am sure that I will not only be weled wh open arms, but I will fd a lovg muny who n help mol for me beg a gay rabbil stunt, and subsequently a gay rabbi…right?

I soon disvered, at least for my first year, I was the only openly gay stunt on mp; my therapist always tells me that ’s important to note openly gay, bee you never know, and I do appreciate her optimism. Somehow by flt, I beme a halutz (a pneer), the very inty I had hoped to avoid when I chose to be a gay rabbil stunt the Reform world, as opposed to the Conservative Ccnati, I had to actively thk about how to navigate all of my inti wh a limed support work. And of urse the biggt qutn: am I a gay rabbi, or am I a rabbi who is gay?

AM I A GAY RABBI, OR AM I A RABBI WHO IS GAY?

In my personal statement, I told a story of buildg a relatnship wh a ngregant a muny Northwt Florida who was ially hant about havg an openly gay rabbil stunt; the fact that I had not yet mentned my sexualy to that muny, but rather had been outed by my precsor is a whole other story.

I was told that foreground my sexualy too much: It showed me as “the gay rabbi” more than “Ari who is gay”…and also holds many other inti and tras, of equal value and import. While this is certaly te, felt strange to hear om – mostly straight – iends, lleagu, and teachers that would behoove me to “tamp down the gay.

” In a recent article , gay wrer J. Bryan Lowr lamented how some public figur have taken to g out by statg that beg gay is only but one small part of who they are, not their whole sence. 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM

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. 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.

UK GAY RABBI MAK WEDDG PLANS

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. 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. London is one of the world’s biggt gay centers.

RABBIS LLS FOR RPECT FOR GAYS

But gay upl here have no way of gettg married. Unr new legislatn, gay marriage servic n take place England and Wal om March 29, 2014. Breakg Taboo Ron Yosef, who holds Orthodox rabbil diploma, believ is possible to be both homosexual and observant.

As well as his own weddg to look forward too, Rabbi Mchell says he has plenty of other Jewish gay upl terted makg a public mment gay ceremoni he will host. Although not a problem liberal Judaism, gay marriage is not an optn likely to be weled by the Orthodox muny London anytime soon.