First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordaed Jesalem - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Contents:

• ISRAEL PRIZE WNER: GAY PEOPLE ARE ‘DISABLED’
• FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
• RAV ARIEL GAY
• ANIMATOR REIMAG ‘LTLE MERMAID’S’ ARIEL AS A GAY MAN
• 250 ISRAELI RABBIS PUBLICLY BACK HEAD OF PRE-IDF AMY WHO CALLED GAY PEOPLE 'PERVERTS'

ISRAEL PRIZE WNER: GAY PEOPLE ARE ‘DISABLED’

Israel Prize wner Rabbi Yaakov Ariel is unr fire this week for refg to walk back his assertn that homosexuals suffer om a mental disabily.

FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM

In 2016, he backed up another rabbi who had spoken out agast the LGBT movement Israel by explag that homosexuals are “disabled people sufferg om a real problem. What did rile the rabbi’s passnate opposn was the open celebratn of homosexualy “Pri” paras that annually take over Israel’s largt ci:.

After wng the Israel Prize, Rabbi Ariel refed to retract his earlier remarks, notg that addn to beg based on Scripture, they are backed up by what was the official profsnal fn of homosexualy the Uned Stat up until 20 years ago. Homosexualy the Msianic body. Like many Christian nomatns, the Msianic Jewish movement don’t like to adm that , too, mt al wh issu like divorce, abortn and homosexualy.

RAV ARIEL GAY

Tzachi Dahan, a lol believer who lived a gay liftyle for many years, opened up to Israel Today about his stggl, and how the lol Msianic learship was eher unequipped or unwillg to addrs the topic. “Msianic lears need to be more open to talk about homosexualy, otherwise our young people will simply py what they hear society around them, and what they hear is not good. “In Israel, is popular to be acmodatg of homosexualy as an acceptable alternative liftyle.

Young people today are not challengg the unrlyg nsistenci of homosexualy wh God’s Word. 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.

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.

ANIMATOR REIMAG ‘LTLE MERMAID’S’ ARIEL AS A GAY MAN

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. An animator has reimaged The Ltle Mermaid protagonist Ariel as a gay man for a ver of one of the film’s classics.

250 ISRAELI RABBIS PUBLICLY BACK HEAD OF PRE-IDF AMY WHO CALLED GAY PEOPLE 'PERVERTS'

Srnanr posted the recreatn to YouTube, statg “I have to please the gays. Others, such as menter Adam Tcher, noted how “there is so much gay subtext behd The Ltle Mermaid. ” As Gay Tim not, The Ltle Mermaid was based on wrer Hans Christian Anrsen’s own love life.