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.

RAV ARIEL GAY

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. 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.

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

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.

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

The Renstctnist and Reform movements began ordag gay rabbis the 1980s, wh the Conservative movement followg 2006.