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Orthodox Jewish views Orthodox Jewish protesters holding Anti-LGBT Protest signs during the Gay Pride parade in Haifa, Israel () While a variety of views regarding homosexuality exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally prohibits homosexual conduct. Question: According to Jewish law, how should a person react to homosexual feelings? Do homosexuals fit into the Jewish community?. Numerous organizations and support groups exist for gay Jews who are interested in maintaining a traditional Jewish lifestyle.

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Steven Greenberg, a gay Jewish educator who was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi, writes and lectures on the possibilities for gays and lesbians in the Orthodox community. For when you come out as gay or as Jewish, you are making yourself vulnerable. Why? Because as our histories have more than amply attested, the world does not always treat gay or Jewish people kindly.

You want to love everyone so you excuse the overt Jew-hatred in the gay pride community. There comes a time when an adult needs to take a stand and set boundaries. Discover More. You ask yourself: is this really allowed? A LOT. Although their understanding of sex and gender is different than our own, the rabbis actually conceive of six different identities including intersex folks and individuals who are nonbinary.

Date me and find out! As evident by its language, the biblical prohibition does not extend to female homosexual acts, though later commentators disapproved of lesbianism. Closely followed by Daniel, Neil, Dale, Ben. However, if a donkey sat down to read the Torah they would immediately recognize each and every donkey in the story even the donkeys not explicitly mentioned!

I mean, have you seen his amazing technicolor dream coat? However, walk-in tickets are also available at the ticket desk. At the Kotel Western Wall , Oops I probably mucked up those numbers rabbis go on about in sermons. Leave a comment Cancel reply. Since September , all modern browsers are supporting this format. Now as a good boy, no one would think anything was out of the ordinary if I spent my teenage years at the library on a Saturday afternoon instead of playing football.

In Judaism, one is only responsible for religious obligations that one can freely choose to fulfill.

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Bisexual icon. We can have a conversation about how poorly understood these sections of the Hebrew Bible are another time. So stunning in fact, that he would sit outside the bathhouse so that any pregnant person who saw him would be so affected by his beauty that their children would be just as handsome. Super femme.

I was going to have to choose between religion and sexuality. Ticket shop. The rabbis explain that adam was a diasprospophone: an individual with two faces, and four arms, and four legs, and a penis, and a vagina — and that later, in that second chapter, when God realizes that this human is lonely, decides to split them in half so that they might have a companion.

There are lots of queer Jewish stories out there, but here are my three favorite gay moments in our tradition. With your help, My Jewish Learning can provide endless opportunities for learning, connection and discovery.

Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I got to know a Reform congregation through a partner, and I found a new religious home there. In the same way, queer folks are not reading themselves into the text — we are just aware of the fact that we are in the text, and always have been. Calendar Upcoming events. I would like to find a partner whom I can marry someday under the chuppah and adopt children with.

And yes, I did get the message I was meant to be ashamed… During one particular month, I was kneeling down by my bed because if my dad came in I could quickly shove it under the bed in a practiced, rapid reflex action and there was a story about a guy.