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New website launched for religious gay community
Kobi Nahshoni
Published: 04.02.08, 20:59
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31. Well done Ari #17
Moshe ,   Jerusalem   (02.05.08)
I hope JONAH have a chance to advertise on this new site as I am sure there are more in this world like you.
32. #17 - Thanks for sharing :)
(02.05.08)
33. Yes you can change
Moshico ,   Jerusalem   (02.05.08)
Tell me something if I have a slice of Kosher cheese and put it on a Kosher Beef Berger does that mean my Beef Berger is now Kosher and alright to eat. Of course not. So answer this question can two Religious Gay Jews live a Torah life together, that’s like putting the cheese on top of a piece of meat and Torah does not except it. But G-D and Torah do except gay Jews who want to lead a Torah life and that means not leading a gay one. Hashem created Man and Woman for them to live together and no where have I ever read that Hashem also created Homosexuals, but some one here is bound to keep me some proof that he did, that means if he did not create them then is it not obvious that someone with Homosexual feelings, gay if you want to call it that can become straight as they were straight from the beginning, But some one will write back and tell be what a lot of rubbish I just wrote and will try to convince us there is such thing as a "gay gene" and that "gay" people have the right to live their life. But if this letter helps at least one person here and makes him think and understand that you can change then I succeeded in something. Looking forward to the feedback.
34. #26 - you've got one -it's called YNet.
(02.05.08)
35. Gays: Hashem created you. Be proud jews.
debra ,   usa   (02.05.08)
36. New Website is hod.org.il
Avi ,   Jerusalem   (02.05.08)
37. Religious and Gay and created in the image of HaShem
David ,   New York   (02.05.08)
Yasher Koach to our friends in Israel. The Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni group has had thousands of Jews who are religious and gay come to its meetings over the past 13 years. See our site yeshivagays.com
38. Website for Religious Bacon eaters ?
Dan the man ,   Paris   (02.05.08)
The Torah has many stipulations which are quite simply inconvenient to many people. Whether it is dietary regulation, regulation of sexual activities and with whom, as well as Sabbath observance etc. It would be so much easier to keep the Torah if there were fewer laws and the laws themselves were less invasive. But they are not. The Torah is what it is, and you either accept it or you reject it. A religious gay is about as possible as a religious ham and bacon eater - it is impossible. So get with the program, and take down that ridiculous website
39. Gay & Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni Ass'n - GLYDSA
Jonathan ,   New York   (02.05.08)
For more than 13 years, thousands of gay and lesbian Jews from Yeshivas and Day Schools have met in New York City to give each other chizuk in staying religious while also accepting that they are gay or lesbian. May the HOD website and group do the same in Israel.
40. GLYDSA
Marc ,   NYC   (02.06.08)
I want to second the comments about GLYDSA in NYC. They do amazing things for the orthodox gay community. I hope HOD can be successful after reading all the hateful talkbacks I see here.
41. #35 So too the people of Sodom and Gemorrah
Josh   (02.06.08)
..and that didn't allow them to sin any more than the gays of today are allowed to sin. Look what he did to the world before Noah for their sinning and look waht he does to us now. War and curses everywhere. Help out gay people and revert to non sinful sex and the partners G-d intended you to have. The opposite sex.
42. Dietary laws?!! It shows ignorance of Torah.
Josh   (02.06.08)
When was the last time G-d leveled a city and killed all its inhabitants because they were eating non-kosher. Does anyone ever think about Torah? Apparently not. Food laws are ordinances. What some of the posters have stated is like saying "Does a murderer think he can be holy. Then I guess a parking ticket is holy too?" If a person eats a bug in their cereal, they are cursed? We know the curses of Shem for merely looking on his father Noah and we know the Sodom and Gomorrah story. We also know the story of Pinchas and his zeal when he came to the tent against the promiscuousness Levi. Or even the penalty of a woman who grabs a man inappropriately to embarrass him during a fight. So do not trivialize the gay sin. It is a big sin and will bear curses. It is not an ant in a loaf of bread, a cheeseburger (which is nothing close to al tvashel gedi bhalv emo), and ham. The desecration of Torah is appalling, but you should look at what you are all preaching as it is also far from the original words of Torah also. You stand in the middle of a mud pit of illegal additions to Torah making G-d like heroes out of the corrupters of Torah and then you complain when it is being overrun by evil men. Do you not know this is a curse of Torah being fulfilled. That the debase will be promoted over you. They will speak and you will remain silent. They will parade in joy and you will not. If we returned to Torah, it would not be this way. So trivialize it and repeat out-of-context rules that your leaders gave you as you slip lower and they are promoted higher in the mud pit of Torah desecrations. You see the curse, will you listen to the words of real Torah?
43. josh the goy comments
charles ,   petach tikva   (02.06.08)
where is your good friend yacub ? also a goy who pretends to educate his children Jewish . You are a nice couple of goyim , 100 % ones .
44. to # 35 , if it is a sin
charles ,   petach tikva   (02.06.08)
why did god create gays ? Don't tell us that being gay is not inborn , for some not true one maybe , but true gays were born so . The same : True Jews are born so , goyim stay goyim , and certainly when not converted by a TRUE Rabbi .
45. My # 44 was for this goy # 41, not for 35
charles ,   petach tikva   (02.06.08)
46. Yawn
Ike ,   Melbourne, Australia   (02.07.08)
Big deal. There was a Shule in Poland before the war for Ganovim. Seriously. The Gabbay was Hirsh Favel Gottfried, and his wife was Chana der Fresser. They had the best Kiddush/Shalosh Seudos in Warsaw. Straight after Shabbos they were out on the streets stealing once more.
47. Gay people need to unite. Love to all.
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (02.08.08)
48. gaybad
knut martin robberst ,   norway   (02.09.08)
hussle is hussle.children are children.be straight is a good thing.i used to be gay.but im not anymore.some priests in norway welcome gay persons.i can ounderstand it gets toutschy.maybe the children dont have to be to sexual.just happy.when you re young its easy to make mistakes.its best to choose a girl if you re a man.but some girls dont want men.
49. curse
knut martin robberst ,   norway,sveio   (02.09.08)
there is sin not curse.muslims may seem to be a curse,but their not.
50. Charles=bogus posts - Gays are not inborn
Josh   (02.09.08)
Rather created through the perversion of the world and their minds. It is a weak mind that cannot stand up for what is right and seeks pleasure irresponsibly. By the way, stop already with the multicharacter posts. Their not believable. Your support of gays is believable as your not what I would call normal. Typical wholesale of everything not pure. Will you deny Jesus? ..and please keep me out of you imagination. By the way, did you know that Hebrews were goyim? Yes it is true the word "goy"describes the forefathers. So use it all you want. Fools listen to Rabbis not mentioned in Torah to destroy Am Israel in the eyes of Hashem. Devarim 4:34" גוי מקרב גוי" A bunch of non-orthodox converts. How dare they? LOL You and the Rabbis have no share in this. Get out.
51. Josh , stupid goyish guy
charles ,   petach tikva   (02.10.08)
When Jews [ TRUE ones ] say : you are a goy , it means a non Jew , even in the pejorative meaning , and every TRUE Jew knows that this is not the true meaning of this word . But this you , a 100 % goy , can't know
52. Amen to God
Alon ,   NY, USA   (02.12.08)
since God lives in all of us, thus the conclusion that we ARE God in this way or another- we are all equal in his eyes as well. otherwise, God would have to deny Herself. and since we all agree that God would not deny Himself- who are we to deny each other? next time we go to praise God, in synagoge or privately in our mind, maybe we should ask for an open heart full with Compassion and Forgiveness- Compassion to others and Forgiveness to OURSELVES for not accepting others. Amen to you HOD, however, if you wanna make a point- live it and own it- don't be afraid to speak your full name proudly rather than just "nicknames"- your full name is who You Are... and that's what it's all about- being who you really are no matter what...
53. bigots
misha ,   new york   (02.12.08)
I hope all you bigots here have gay children some day!!! Then you will see the pain you are causing right up close in your faces. G-d knows the truth about us and how he made us. We are not perverts or thiefs or treif eaters .. we are people who want to love and be loved without lying to our wives about how we feel. I hope you JONAH people realize that you are not really "converted". You are just repressing yourselves in service of bigots in long beards. Check your hard drives... you'll see the images that your repression causes. Good luck to your wives!
54. Accepting homosexuals
Greg Cochrane ,   USA   (04.30.08)
It matters not what people say is acceptable behavior. According to Gods word no "practicing" homosexal will ever be accepted into His everlasting kingdom. Unless you all repent you will all together perish . Read the Bible for yourself both Torra and new testaments condemn homosexuality.
55. Will only lie with man
Richard ,   United States   (09.15.08)
The homosexual men generally will only lie with man and never with woman, therefore he will not lie with man as he lies with woman.
56. another good religeous site
Richard ,   United States   (09.15.08)
Orthodox men who abuse their wife. There are plenty of you out there, but you too live a double life. That too is abomination, but the religeous keep that quiet just like the Roman Catholic church keeps the pedophilia quiet (male and female)
57. The Big Lie
Danyel ,   USA   (11.30.10)
The Angeryy based comment attacking LGBT Jews. Why so angry? We know a person who chooses to
59. Gay orthodox Jews
deremes ,   salt lake city US   (03.29.12)
Those who wield the Torah as a weapon against gays assume past consensus regarding its interpretation. Bad idea. Just as Christians have contextually reinterpreted every single scripture used to condemn homosexuality by fundamentalists, Jews should think of doing the same thing vis a vis the Torah. I myself have found an incredible oversight in the traditional interpretation of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah which turns the meaning of it on its head.
60. Clearance on contrasts or lack thereof
Ben ,   SP/BRAZIL   (09.15.15)
1-please, any Rabbis in to disclose the Sod on the related toevah passages? 2-Why is there not an equivalent repulsion and activism against those who eat pork, brak shabbes as well? 3-Any parents in to stone the rebel son? 4-Why ever only sexual area is highlighted in detriment of other toevot? 5-Again, what is the Kabbalah context for what is encoded in Torah?
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