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Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
- MAJOR US JEWISH GROUP ELECTS 1ST OPENLY GAY RABBI
- "A MOL FOR PRI": LOL RABBI BE 1ST GAY MAN TO LEAD PROMENT MNOTA SYNAGOGUE
- LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?
- ORDAG GAYS AND LBIANS: DENOMATNAL APPROACH
- CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT GRAPPLG WH POLICY ON RABBIS WHO ARE GAY
- GAY RABBIS
FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
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.
MAJOR US JEWISH GROUP ELECTS 1ST OPENLY GAY RABBI
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.
"A MOL FOR PRI": LOL RABBI BE 1ST GAY MAN TO LEAD PROMENT MNOTA SYNAGOGUE
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.
LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?
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.
ORDAG GAYS AND LBIANS: DENOMATNAL APPROACH
“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.
CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT GRAPPLG WH POLICY ON RABBIS WHO ARE GAY
Gay Pri flags 370. The Renstctnist Rabbil Associatn has elected an openly gay rabbi to lead the natnal rabbic Jason Kle, the executive director of Hillel at the Universy of Maryland, Baltimore County, sce 2006, was elected to lead the RRA durg s 39th annual nventn New Orleans, which end on Wednday.
GAY RABBIS
It is the first natnal rabbic associatn of one of the major Jewish nomatns the Uned Stat to be led by a gay man, acrdg to the was ordaed by the Renstctnist Rabbil Council 2002 and graduated om Columbia Universy 1997.
Only this Saturday, one rabbi is makg history Aaron Weger is the first gay man to be promoted to senr rabbi at one of the largt synagogu the 27th verse wrten the openg chapter of Genis speaks to G-d's makg man "B'tzelem Elohim" -- the Almighty's image. Gay Jews have been makg their prence known at pri paras much to the chagr of event anizers.