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LGBT And Judaism
{{Navbox , name = LGBTQ topics and Judaism , title = LGBTQ topics and Judaism , above = {{flatlist, * History * Affirming denominations * LGBTQ Jews , listclass = hlist , group1 = Issues , list1 = *Homosexuality ** in Conservative Judaism **same-sex marriage * LGBTQ clergy *Transgender people , group2 = Organizations , list2 = * A Wider Bridge * Aleph Melbourne * Bat Kol * Beit Haverim * Dayenu * Eshel * Havruta * Hod * JQY * Kamoha * Keshet * Keshet Rabbis * Nehirim * Shoval , group3 = LGBTQ synagogues , list3 = * Beit Simchat Torah * Bet Mishpachah * Beth Chayim Chadashim * Or Chadash , group4 = Related topics , list4 = * Gender and Jewish studies * Jewish feminism * Judaism and sexuality Jewish traditions across different eras and regions devote considerable attention to sexuality. Sexuality is the subject of many narratives and laws in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and rabbinic literature. In Judaism, sexuality is viewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of LGBTQ Jewish History
This is a timeline of LGBT Jewish history, which consists of events at the intersection of Judaism and queer people. Timeline 1st millennium BCE 4th century BCE * c. 486 BCE - Darius the Great adopted the Holiness code of the Book of Leviticus for Persian Jews of the Achaemenid Empire, enacting the first state sanctioned death penalty for male same-sex intercourse. 14th century * 1322 CE - The History of the Jews in Arles, Provençal-Jewish poet Kalonymus ben Kalonymus writes "On Becoming a Woman", expressing lament at and cursing having been born male, referring to their penis as a "defect" ), and wishes to have been created as a woman. * 1345 CE - Juce Abolfaça and Simuel Nahamán, two Jews from Puente la Reina, Navarre, Puente la Reina, are chained to a tree and burned to death in Olite "because they had committed the sodomitical sin with each other." 15th century * 1403 CE - Isaach Salamó, a Jew, is burned in Perpignan (then part of Catalonia) for homosexuality. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamoha
Kamoha.org.il (Hebrew: כמוך, English: 'like you') is an Israeli organization for Orthodox Jewish homosexuals. It is aimed primarily at the Religious Zionist community, but is also open to those from the Hareidi sector. The organization has split from the organization Havruta, and chose a much more conservative approach, promoting conversion therapy and marriage of gay men to lesbians. Positions Promoting conversion therapy Kamoha.org.il promotes conversion therapy, and offers subsidies to finance it, declaring that some gay men might yet be able to develop opposite sex attraction and live a fulfilling normative heterosexual lifestyle. Yet it states that success is not guaranteed and that these treatments cannot be a sufficient solution for all gay men. Pairing gay men with lesbians The organization supports the project ''Anachnu'' (Hebrew: אנחנו, English: 'us'). ''Anachnu'' is a matchmaking service which pairs gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews. This has been criticize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mi Shebeirach
A is a Jewish prayer used to request a blessing from God. Dating to the 10th or 11th century CE, prayers are used for a wide variety of purposes. Originally in Hebrew but sometimes recited in the vernacular, different versions at different times have been among the prayers most popular with congregants. In contemporary Judaism, a serves as the main prayer of healing, particularly among liberal Jews, to whose rituals it has become central. The original , a Shabbat prayer for a blessing for the whole congregation, originated in Babylonia as part of or alongside the prayers. Its format—invoking God in the name of the patriarchs (and in some modern settings the matriarchs) and then making a case that a specific person or group should be blessed—became a popular template for other prayers, including that for a person called to the Torah and those for life events such as brit milah (circumcision) and b'nai mitzvah. The for (those called to the Torah) was for a time the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judaism And Sexuality
Jewish traditions across different eras and regions devote considerable attention to sexuality. Sexuality is the subject of many narratives and laws in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and rabbinic literature. In Judaism, sexuality is viewed as having both positive and negative potential, depending on the context in which it is expressed. Sexual activity has traditionally often been viewed as a grave sin if it is outside of the bounds of permissible behavior. On the other hand, many sources express a positive attitude towards sex between a married couple, also within same-sex marriages according to Reconstructionist, Humanistic, and Reform Judaism, and to a certain degree Conservative Judaism. Attitudes towards sexuality within marriage Laws and Biblical sources According to medieval Rabbinical enumerations of the 613 commandments, the commandment to procreate () is the first mitzvah in the Torah.See Sefer haChinuch (Jerusalem: Rav Kook Institute, 1990), p. 55. This commandment was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Feminism
Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of the Jewish religion. In its modern form, the Jewish feminist movement can be traced to the early 1970s in the United States. According to Judith Plaskow, the main grievances of early Jewish feminists were women's exclusion from the all-male prayer group or ''minyan'', women's exemption from positive time-bound ''mitzvot'' (mitzvot meaning the 613 commandments given in the Torah at Mount Sinai and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later, for a total of 620), and women's inability to function as witnesses and to initiate divorce in Jewish religious courts.Plaskow, Judith. "Jewish Feminist Thought" in Frank, Daniel H. & Leaman, Oliver. ''History of Jewish Philosophy'', Routledge, first published 1997; this edition 2003. Acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gender And Jewish Studies
Gender and Jewish Studies is an emerging subfield at the intersection of gender studies, queer studies, and Jewish studies. Gender studies centers on interdisciplinary research on the phenomenon of gender. It focuses on cultural representations of gender and people's lived experience. Similarly, queer studies focuses on the cultural representations and lived experiences of queer identities to critique hetero-normative values of sex and sexuality. Jewish studies is a field that looks at Jews and Judaism, through such disciplines as history, anthropology, literary studies, linguistics, and sociology. As such, scholars of gender and Jewish studies are considering gender as the basis for understanding historical and contemporary Jewish societies. This field recognizes that much of recorded Jewish history and academic writing is told from the perspective of “the male Jew” and fails to accurately represent the diverse experiences of Jews with non-dominant gender identities. History Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Or Chadash
Congregation Or Chadash () was a Reform Jewish LGBT-oriented congregation that was located at 5959 North Sheridan Road, Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1975 as a gay support group for Jews, and was holding religious services by 1976. In 1977 it moved into its first building, a former Unitarian church on West Barry Avenue, and hired its first permanent rabbi, Suzanne Griffel, in 1997. Griffel was succeeded as rabbi by Larry Edwards, and Or Chadash moved a new location, which shared with another synagogue and a Jewish day school, in 2003. In October 2010, Or Chadash was thought to be one of the two synagogues targeted in the 2010 cargo planes bomb plot. In 2016, Or Chadash merged into another Reform congregation, Temple Sholom, with Or Chadash remaining the name of the Temple's LGBTQ+ community group. Early history Or Chadash was founded in Chicago in 1975 as a gay support group for Jews. The organization was initially cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Chayim Chadashim
Beth Chayim Chadashim (), abbreviated as BCC, is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 6090 West Pico Boulevard, in Mid-City Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1972, primarily for lesbian and gay Jews. The Los Angeles Conservancy acknowledges the congregation as being "culturally significant" as both the first LGBT synagogue in the world, the first LGBT synagogue recognized by the Union for Reform Judaism and, in 1977, as the first LGBT synagogue to own its own building. History On April 4, 1972, Selma Kay, Jerry Gordon, Jerry Small, and Bob Zalkin were the only people who came to a weekly Wednesday night meeting at Los Angeles's Metropolitan Community Church. They were all Jewish, and Selma asked, "Why don't we form a temple with an outreach to the gay Jews?" The others agreed, and Rev. Troy Perry offered them the use of the church's facilities free of charge. About a dozen women and men responded to the call to an ad hoc committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bet Mishpachah
Bet Mishpachah () is a non-denominational Jewish egalitarian worshiping community and congregation that supports a synagogue. It is located in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Bet Mishpachah is one of a number of national and international Jewish communities of LGBTQ+ affirming congregations that specifically welcome and embrace the LGBTQ+ community, along with all others who "wish to participate in an inclusive, egalitarian, and mutually supportive community." Membership is open to all singles, couples, and families, regardless of religious affiliation, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Sabbath worship services and most religious and educational programs are held at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center (EDCJCC) in Washington, DC. History Bet Mishpachah was founded in 1975, as the Metropolitan Community Temple Mishpocheh. At first, its members were all men, and it later had woman as members too. In 1976, it hosted the First Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah ("CBST") is a non-denominational Jewish, pluralistic, progressive, and LGBTQ+ synagogue located at 130 West 30th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1973 by and for LGBTQ people, and is the world's largest LGBTQ synagogue as of 2016. CBST serves Jews of all sexual orientations and gender identities and their families and friends. During 1992–2024, the congregation was led by Senior Rabbi Emerita Sharon Kleinbaum. Current clergy include Senior Rabbi Jason Klein, Associate Rabbi Yael Werber, and Cantor Sam Rosen. CBST is not affiliated with any formal denomination or branch of Judaism. History The congregation, founded in 1973 by twelve gay Jewish men and led by Jacob Gubbay, originally met in Chelsea's Church of the Holy Apostles and brought its prayer materials to services each week in a brown paper bag. In 1978, they began renting space in the West Village at 57 Bethune Street—in the Westbeth Artists Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBTQ Synagogue
LGBTQ synagogues (historically known as gay and lesbian synagogues) are synagogues primarily serving LGBTQ Jews. LGBTQ synagogues date to 1970, with the oldest extant one, Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC) in Los Angeles, established in 1972. Their religious doctrines vary, but are generally liberal; many affiliate with the Reform movement and one with Reconstructionism, while others, such as Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) in New York City, are independent. Many use custom liturgy shaped by the LGBTQ experience and Jewish feminism, often using degenderized terms to refer to God. LGBTQ synagogues are largely found in the United States, although one, Beit Klal Yisrael, exists in London. Early LGBTQ synagogues emerged alongside and with the help of the LGBTQ-affirming Metropolitan Community Church. The synagogues' growth was heavily shaped by the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, which in some congregations killed close to half of the membership. The ministry of Rabbi Yoel Kahn at Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoval (organization)
Shoval - All is created for your glory (Hebrew: שׁב"ל - שהכל ברא לכבודו) is an initiative of Jewish orthodox lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Israel that actively promotes tolerance and understanding of LGBT people within religious communities in Israel through meeting with educators. Harris, Ben"For religious gays in Israel, new initiatives are providing hope" '' JTA'', 24 January 2010. It is a cooperation of gay men from Havruta, and lesbian women from Bat Kol, and is supported and promoted by these organizations. The organisation's name derives from the second of the Sheva Brachot. Mission statement Shoval promotes tolerance and understanding of LGBT people within the religious communities in Israel. Shoval's main focus is to create a safe place within the religious communities in Israel for LGBT adolescents. It provides educational programs that are directed at educators, social workers, and people that affect LGBT adolescents directly, in or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
