First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordaed Jesalem - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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. 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.

MEET THE KG OF NEW YORK’S GAY JEWISH NIGHTLIFE

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.

WHY STRAIGHT PEOPLE GO TO GAY SYNAGOGU

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.