Gay jew

Focus on Actions, Not Identity

• Traditional Jewish law (halakha) focuses on specific actions rather than sexual orientation as an identity.
• This distinction has allowed for varied approaches to understanding and addressing homosexuality.

2. It was at the funeral in San Francisco where he met his life long partner Stephen, who was the sign language interpreter at the ceremony (best/saddest meet cute ever?).

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Are there aspects of your Jewishness that have enriched your relationship to your gender and/or sexual identity? 

What are the biggest changes you've seen in Jewish communities' relationships to their LGBTQ+ members over the past few decades? Betty Berzon (1928-2006) 

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He served as Chairman of the Board until 2006, when he died at 73 from cardiac arrest.

Interestingly, Lawson, raised in a Christian household, discovered Judaism in the early 2000s while she was training her client, Rabbi Joshua Lesser. Advocacy Organizations

• Groups like Keshet and Eshel work to create inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ Jews within religious communities.

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“It matters whether someone is using the pronouns as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect.”

13. In 1988, Shir Tikvah Congregation of Minneapolis welcomed Offner into their community, paving the way for many women rabbis to come.

9. Full equality and inclusion for transgender persons was endorsed in 2015.

The Conservative rabbinate adopted a similar resolution the following year.

Leviticus 18:22

• “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
• This verse has been interpreted as a prohibition against male same-sex relations.

2. While there is little indication that this position is severely contested within that community, let alone likely to change in the near future, there have been initiatives to make Orthodox communities more welcoming of gay Jews.

Jazz Jennings (2000-present)

At the age of 5, the illustrious Jazz Jennings become one of the youngest people to publicly come out as transgender.

Dr. Fritz Klein was born to an Orthodox family in 1932 and, after fleeing anti-Semitism in Vienna to the safe haven of New York, earned his medical degree in 1961 and began breaking ground in the bisexual community.

Klein was basically the Jewish Alfred Kinsey, AKA the Father of Human Sexuality. Disturbed by his country’s attitude towards homosexuality, he wrote a pamphlet calling for the decriminalization of gay sex in Germany.

The politician recently passed away in February, and just two days before her death, the “Babs Siperstein Law,” which allows New Jersey residents to amend their gender identity on their birth certificates, was passed into law.

12. As the lead plaintiff in United States v. Not only is she a trailblazing Jewish person of color, before becoming a religious icon she served in the army and started a personal training business.

In 2007, the movement’s new prayer book included blessings to sanctify gender transitions. She said that the music industry was extremely homophobic, but she never felt the need to pretend she was heterosexual. A few years after that, the trailblazer publicly announced her sexuality at a conference called “Homosexual in America,” making her the first psychotherapist in the States to come out as gay.

Later that year, a New Jersey judge ordered the group to cease operations.