First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordaed Jesalem - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Contents:

• A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEW
• THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
• GAY AND JEWISH WARTIME BERL: THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND ZNISM
• FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
• MEET THE RABBI WHO BRGS ORTHODOX LBIANS TOGETHER WH GAY MEN SO THEY N HAVE KIDS
• THE BIGGT JEWISH GAY “NVERSN THERAPY” ANIZATN HAS BEEN OPERATG SECRET AFTER US URTS SHUT DOWN
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT

But the mera at the edge of the room, light stands and the fact both men are as naked as the day they were born make clear this isn’t a regular enunter between iends or lovers, but a film set for the Israeli porn webse igay365. “Sudnly, you fd out that your actor is a sgle mother who has to do this for the money – I didn’t like that, ” he not, addg that men are ls subject to the set of a gay porn movie Jaffa, May David BacharProf. The productns are generally amatrish, wh the actors gettg between 1, 000 shekels to 2, 000 shekels ($277 to $554) for a day’s ‘survivg’Anyone enterg the igay365 webse will disver a variety of films of different duratns, as is the norm on such s.

So, Shmuel (Adam Silver) leads a double life -- prayg at the synagogue and managg a dry cleang bs by day, and then traversg gay bars by night -- at least while his wife and children are out of town. In rponse to the Supreme Court’s lg favor of marriage equaly, the Unn of Orthodox Congregatns released a statement, sayg, “We reerate the historil posn of the Jewish fah, enunciated unequivolly our Bible, Talmud and Cos, which forbids homosexual relatnships and nmns the stutnalizatn of such relatnships as marriag. As early as 1990, the Rabbil Assembly’s Commtee on Jewish Law and Standards, which sets halakhic (legal) policy for the Conservative Movement, stated their sire to “work for full and equal civil rights for gays and lbians our natnal life.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people should be able to earn a livg, provi for their fai and ntribute to society whout fear that who they are or who they love uld st them a job. Renstctnist JudaismThe Renstctnist movement exprsed s support for the full cln of gay men and lbians all aspects of Jewish life s 1992 Report of the Renstctnist Commissn on Homosexualy.

The report affirmed the hols of homosexual relatnships and the need to affirm them a Jewish ntext: “As we celebrate the love between heterosexual upl, so too we celebrate the love between gay or lbian Jews. Renstctnist Rabbi Rebec Alpert, thor of Like Bread on the Ser Plate: Jewish Lbians and the Transformatn of Tradn and -thor of Explorg Judaism: A Renstctnist Approach, has argued that the Jewish prciple of enomic jtice mands support for civil gay and lbian marriage, bee the absence of legal benefs for same-genr upl n e them signifint fancial harm.

” The Unn of Amerin Hebrew Congregatns, the ngregatnal arm of the Reform movement, followed su 1997, rolvg to, “support secular efforts to promote legislatn which would provi civil marriage equal opportuny for gay men and lbians. It also lled for the velopment of sample ceremoni to be ed as a rource for those rabbis who plan to perform same-sex Jewish Conservative MovementUntil very recently same-sex marriage and other gay and lbian issu met wh ltle nsens the Conservative movement.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEW

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND

As social attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people have unrgone a sea change globally, stanc taken by Jewish lears and movements have changed along wh, same-sex marriag are regnized by the Reform, Conservative, Renewal and Renstctnist movements, and each movement’s rabbil semary ordas LGBTQ stunts. All the chang were preced by the Renstctnist movement, which began beme the first movement to accept gays and lbians as rabbil stunts 1984 and whose rabbis have long been ee to officiate at same-sex while the liberal Jewish muny has shifted markedly on this issue, homosexualy remas a vexg issue Orthodoxy, which ntu to hold fast to the Torah’s seemgly flexible rejectn of homosexual acts.

” Many thori nsir this prohibn to be one of Judaism’s rdal ss and believe mt not be transgrsed even at the threat of one’s Readg the Prohibn Agast Homosexualy ContextEven the most tradnally-md terpreters of the verse acknowledge that the Torah do not prohib homosexualy as such, but merely one specific sexual act — generally unrstood to be anal sex between two men. The biblil vers are also generally not unrstood as rejectg homosexuals as dividuals, but merely homosexual differ sharply along nomatnal The Reform movement was the first of the major nomatns to take a liberal posn toward homosexualy, adoptg the first of many rolutns on behalf of gays and lbians 1977.

GAY AND JEWISH WARTIME BERL: THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND ZNISM

Conservative: In 2006, the Conservative movement nclud a polarizg bate over homosexualy wh the endorsement of two ntradictory opns — one upholdg the movement’s prev rejectn of gay relatnships, and another retag the Torah prohibn on male anal sex but allowg for other forms of sexual timacy between members of the same sex. While there is ltle ditn that this posn is severely ntted wh that muny, let alone likely to change the near future, there have been iativ to make Orthodox muni more welg of gay Jews.

FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM

A statement thored 2010 and signed by over 200 Orthodox rabbis exprsly weled gay Jews fully to synagogue life even as reerated tradnal Orthodox opposn to gay sex and same-sex marriage. The Reform movement now nsirs same-sex marriage to qualify as kiddh — the rabbic term for betrothal, a holy unn between two 2012, the same three Conservative rabbis who thored the more liberal opn on homosexualy noted above published a seri of ruals and documents pertag to same-sex marriage ceremoni and divorce.

MEET THE RABBI WHO BRGS ORTHODOX LBIANS TOGETHER WH GAY MEN SO THEY N HAVE KIDS

Other Conservative rabbis, believg that gay marriage mt enjoy the same stat as tradnal heterosexual marriage, have sisted on applyg the tradnal marriage ruals wh only the most mor modifitns genred language.

Though the largt Orthodox rabbil group, the Rabbil Council of Ameri, had at one time mend JONAH’s work, publicly whdrew s endorsement 2012, cg evince that the therapy was effective and had potentially negative the Orthodox muny still support nversn therapy, however, part bee they believe is impossible that homosexual sir uld be both unchangeable and proscribed by the Torah. Israel has regularly touted s achievements on gay rights as a sign of s progrsive Wtern worldview, a practice some crics have rid as an attempt at “pkwashg” — that is, to distract om s treatment of the more on LGBTQ Jewish life, vis MyJewishLearng’s Khet blog.

Havg sex wh a married woman is a no-no, as are homosexualy and btialy (tertgly, when eher a man or a woman is ught havg sex wh an animal, both the human and the beast are to be put to ath), all other women are fair game, but not all the time.

THE BIGGT JEWISH GAY “NVERSN THERAPY” ANIZATN HAS BEEN OPERATG SECRET AFTER US URTS SHUT DOWN

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

There is no official membership, and only a handful of people are willg to put their nam on support-group Ashkazy, a gay-rights activist and Orthodox Jew who liv New York Cy, says he has spoken wh over 200 gay Orthodox Jews over the past few years. The first Wt Coast support group was found Los Angel by "Jab, " a 54-year-old Orthodox gay Jew who had been married and livg a New York suburb until ten years ago, when he nfsed to his wife that he was gay. Richard Isay, a gay New York-based psychoanalyst, timat that 15 to 20 percent of gay men marry women–bee they want to ny or "cure" their gayns, or want children, or to please their parents.

In this letter he wrote to the Tel Aviv Municipaly and suggted that the name of Inpennce Park, a seaont hot spot for gay pickups, be renamed for Jewish-German sexologist Magn Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a lear the stggle for gay and lbian rights pre-Nazi Germany. ” The German pal, which long ago ceased to be embarrassed by s gay muny, proudly memorat Hirschfeld’s legacy, as he is remembered not only as the founr of the Scientific Humanarian Commtee but also as the founr of the cy’s first sexology stute, 1919, where the first sex-change operatn took place.

A sectn of the Spree river that transvers Berl is named for Hirschfeld, and he has recently been featured as part of a historil “lbian/Jewish/gay” exhib at the Schwul Mm, an LGBT mm the Tiergarten district of Berl. Jens Dobler, says the featured dividuals “reprent the wi range of persecutn, of both Jews and gays, durg the Nazi era, and offer some ep sight to the fat of those who suffered om double stigmas. Acrdg to his rearch, a substantial number of closeted gays and lbians should be add to those root of 
human sexualyHirschfeld is whout doubt the most well known of those the exhibn, though he is featured alongsi many other stand-out dividuals, such as historian Gee Mosse (1919-1999), who ped om Nazi Germany durg his youth and went on to wre extensive studi on Nazi racism and the legacy of manls, sexualy and homosexualy; and Felice Schragenheim (1922-1945), a young woman om Berl who perished the Holot.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Plant’s father, who remaed Germany, mted suici later that year, after Kristallnacht, and Plant’s other fay members were killed ncentratn the 1960s Plant began to wre for an LGBT newspaper, and 1973 wrote his most important work, “The Pk Triangle: The Nazi War agast Homosexuals” (published 1986). What started as Plant’s efforts to disver the fat of German iends om when he was younger, beme an -pth and groundbreakg study to the Nazi persecutn of only did he wre about the ndns that allowed for thoands of gays and lbians to be sent to the mps by the SS, but also about the thoands more who were sentenced to ath by the German legal system, as clse 175 of the crimal forbid homosexual relatns.

There were, of urse, many differenc between the Nazis’ persecutn of gays and Jews, but, as Plant shows, the Nazis’ antigay and anti-Semic polici were closely the film Aimee and Jaguar (1999).