Can a jew be gay
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Orthodox Judaism
There is no primary governing body but despite the different forms it has taken they all share some common principles of faith and a deep loyalty to Halacha or Jewish law. Halacha is a code of behavior that covers a vast range of ethical rules, social mores, ritual practices and spiritual disciplines. A quarter of the medieval code, the Shulchan Aruch, which to this day guides Orthodox Jews, focuses on sexual rehearse and marriage. Judaism celebrates creation as an characteristic good. Consequently, Jewish regulation does not disparage sex. However, Orthodox tradition only supports heterosexual relations and only within the context of heterosexual marriage.
Orthodox tradition is religiously organized and socially structured by biblical and rabbinic teachings on fixed gender roles, creating separate religious duties and always separate spaces for men and women during worship. Orthodox Judaism believes that the Torah is of divine origin and represents the word of G-d. Jewish sacred texts, commonly understood in the Christian world as the Old Testament, include the Five Books of Moses, (referred to as the Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im)
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Conservative Judaism
The denomination constitutes approximately one-fifth of the Jewish population in the Together States, and includes Conservative schools, camps, national and local organizations and, of course, synagogues. While the Rabbinical Assembly, and it’s Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards, sets policy for the denomination as a whole, rabbis and their congregations make their own choices regarding Gay ordination, same-sex marriages, and their commitment to the creation of welcoming and affirming communities.
LGBTQ+ EQUALITY
ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION & GENDER IDENTITY
LGBTQ+ Conservative Jews will interaction a wide range of experiences at Conservative institutions. Some are welcoming and affirming, ordaining LGBTQ+ rabbis and celebrating same-sex marriages. Others are not. As a denomination, however, Conservative Judaism has taken a firm and public stance for inclusion.
As early as , the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Statute and Standards, which sets halakhic (legal) policy for the Conservative Movement, stated their desire to “work for full and identical civil rights for gays and lesbians in our national life.” In th
“Are there gay Jews?”
I’ve often been asked: do you have problems as a Jew in Germany? And I have to say: I’ve actually had more negative experiences related to my homosexuality. I always wear the Magen David, the Star of David, around my neck. In the summer at the pool, it’s clearly apparent. And I’ve never had problems with it. In Germany today, I can live my homosexuality as well as my faith, my Jewishness. So as a Jew I’ve made my peace with Germany.
I come from a secular family: we’re believers, and we’re part of a congregation, but we’re not strictly pious. Especially when you’re young, when you spend time partying and enjoying life, and then you go to synagogue, you can have difficulties. When I came out of the closet and started to live my homosexuality openly, I noticed that it disturbed people that I wasn’t as much a part of the congregation anymore. I no longer felt at home in my parents’ community, so I left. I have always felt like a bit of an alien there – like I didn’t really belong.
My secret life as a gay ultra-Orthodox Jew
Once you are pregnant that kid becomes both a hostage and your hostage taker. You are held hostage by your child. We are expected to possess eight or nine children and I kept getting pregnant. My feelings built up inside me until one day I was walking down the lane in a little cul-de-sac somewhere. There was so much noise in my head that I started saying "I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay!" out loud.
It made me experience like I had to do something about it. Eventually, I told my husband. I think he already knew I was gay but he'd convinced himself that it was just a latent yearn for rather than an integral part of my culture.
We still don't recognize what we are going to do. We own children together and a family set-up that works. If my husband and I separate we would lose all of that. I think we would all lose something if we broke apart so I may well remain married.
I hope my family can stay together, although I don't realize what shape that would take. People have all kinds of arrangements. Rabbis have different ideas than some about how you should keep people together. In a case enjoy mine, instead of trying to
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