Can a jew be gay
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 youth. We are expected to have eight or nine children and I kept getting pregnant. My feelings built up inside me until one day I was walking down the street in a little cul-de-sac somewhere. There was so much noise in my chief that I started saying "I'm lgbtq+, I'm gay, I'm gay!" out loud.
It made me perceive like I had to do something about it. Eventually, I told my husband. I believe he already knew I was homosexual but he'd convinced himself that it was just a latent desire rather than an integral part of my identity.
We still don't know what we are going to do. We have children together and a family set-up that works. If my husband and I separate we would forfeit all of that. I think we would all miss something if we broke apart so I may adequately stay married.
I hope my family can stay together, although I don't know what shape that would hold. People have all kinds of arrangements. Rabbis have diverse
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Orthodox Judaism
There is no main 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 exercise and marriage. Judaism celebrates creation as an integral good. Consequently, Jewish commandment 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
Stances of Faiths on Queer Issues: Conservative Judaism
The denomination constitutes approximately one-fifth of the Jewish population in the Merged 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 LGBTQ+ ordination, same-sex marriages, and their dedication to the creation of welcoming and affirming communities.
LGBTQ+ EQUALITY
ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION & GENDER IDENTITY
LGBTQ+ Conservative Jews will encounter a roomy 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 Law and Standards, which sets halakhic (legal) policy for the Conservative Movement, stated thei
“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 clear. 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