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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. 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.
MAJOR US JEWISH GROUP ELECTS 1ST OPENLY GAY RABBI
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.
"A MOL FOR PRI": LOL RABBI BE 1ST GAY MAN TO LEAD PROMENT MNOTA SYNAGOGUE
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.
LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?
“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.
ORDAG GAYS AND LBIANS: DENOMATNAL APPROACH
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. 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. But if you’re homosexual, go out play.
CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT GRAPPLG WH POLICY ON RABBIS WHO ARE GAY
Acrdg to Wikipedia, Kameny is “one of the most signifint figur” the Amerin gay movement, bee he was the first known person the Uned Stat to make a civil rights claim based on sexual orientatn a U. Kameny’s Wiki b also stat that he was an Ashkenazi Jew, and this ma me wonr: Are Jews overreprented the gay muny jt as they areas of our society, such as publishg, televisn, news media, the film dtry, porn dtry, amia, the arts and bankg?
And how many famo homosexuals are Jewish – or, versely – how many famo Jews are homosexuals?
What was actually tertg though about Wikipedia’s notable LGBTQ Jews is the credibly long list of Jewish homosexual relig figur.
GAY RABBIS
Lnel Blue, first Brish rabbi publicly to e out as gay; wrote Godly and Gay (1981). Deborah Br, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis. Denise Eger, first female and the first openly gay Print of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California; March 2015 she beme print of the Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, the largt and olst rabbil anizatn North Ameri.
Jason Kle, first openly gay man to head a natnal rabbil associatn of a major US Jewish nomatns (2013) …. Sandra Lawson, beme the first openly gay Ain-Amerin and the first Ain-Amerin admted to the Renstctnist Rabbil College 2011; beme the first openly gay, female, black rabbi the world 2018. Toba Spzer, first openly lbian or gay person chosen to head a rabbil associatn the Uned Stat 2007, when she was elected print of the Renstctnist Rabbil Associatn.
Ron Yosef, Orthodox rabbi who helped found the Israeli anizatn Hod, which reprents gay and lbian Orthodox Jews ….