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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.

SYNAGOGUE APPOTS GAY RABBI FIVE YEARS AFTER REJECTG LBIAN

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.

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

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.

RPECTED GAY RABBI PASS AWAY LONDON AGED 77

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.

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

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.

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

She quickly set about welg everyone, pecially lbian and gay Jews.

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.

GAY RABBIS

But qutned societal attus toward gay muny members, nmng those who qutn whether to let openly gay men receive ual Torah honors. “‘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.

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

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

FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM

” But the fight reflects much more than munal ambivalence toward homosexualy. Dweck jt tend to let people know that gay people are people too.

UK GAY RABBI MAK WEDDG PLANS

Kev Spacey has addrsed his ntroversial 2017 statement which he me out as gay rponse to Anthony Rapp’s accatn of sexual misnduct.

RABBIS LLS FOR RPECT FOR GAYS

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.

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?