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Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
- MEET THE KG OF NEW YORK’S GAY JEWISH NIGHTLIFE
- WHY STRAIGHT PEOPLE GO TO GAY SYNAGOGU
FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
Home-sli-1Congregatn Be Simchat TorahLbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Straight, Jewish.
MEET THE KG OF NEW YORK’S GAY JEWISH NIGHTLIFE
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.
WHY STRAIGHT PEOPLE GO TO GAY SYNAGOGU
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. 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.