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US Reform Jewish rabbis install 1st openly lesbian leader
Associated Press ^ | Mar 15, 2015 12:11 PM EDT | Rachel Zoll

Posted on 03/15/2015 11:10:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai

As a rabbinic student in 1980s New York, Denise Eger lived away from other seminarians. She quietly started a group for fellow gay and lesbian students, but held the meetings in another borough. By the time of her ordination, she wasn’t formally out, but her sexuality was known, and no one would hire her. Later, she took the only job offered, with a synagogue formed expressly as a religious refuge for gays.

Since then, the Reform Jewish movement—Eger’s spiritual home since childhood—has traveled a long road toward recognizing and embracing same-sex relationships. That journey has led this week to Philadelphia, where Eger will be installed Monday as the first openly gay president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical arm of Reform Judaism.

“It really shows an arc of LGBT civil rights,” Eger said in a phone interview ahead of the convention where she will take office. “I smile a lot—with a smile of incredulousness.” …

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lesbianrabbi; reformjudaism

1 posted on 03/15/2015 11:10:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Spiritual advisor to a truth challenged, alcoholic lesbian who hopes to be elected the first woman President.


2 posted on 03/15/2015 11:12:26 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Olog-hai

Why don’t they just merge with the Episcopals and the PCUSA?

If not one big happy family, it could at least be one medium sized gay family.


3 posted on 03/15/2015 11:26:33 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

In terms of their goals for society, they are merged there.


4 posted on 03/15/2015 11:28:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: allendale

Haven’t various Hebrew sects in the past become the object of a mighty smite from God? Whatever happened to Sodom and Gomorrah?

This turning to embracing the “Golden Calf” of same-sex marriages is likely to incur a similar display of righteous divine wrath.

When it strikes, do not look back to watch the carnage, lest you, too, be turned into a pillar of salt, like Lot’s wife.


5 posted on 03/15/2015 11:35:40 AM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: Olog-hai

They are anti-G-d, anti-Torah pigs. They are lost. They have rejected HaShem and his Law. Their payday is coming and they won’t like it.


6 posted on 03/15/2015 11:36:28 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees!)
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To: alloysteel

I guess some folks just never learn.


7 posted on 03/15/2015 11:49:10 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: alloysteel

The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah weren’t Hebrews that I recall, nor were the Egyptians. The Philistines were also smitten with cancer-like diseases when they took possession of the Ark of the Covenant, especially when they had the temerity to put it before an idol of their false god Dagon.


8 posted on 03/15/2015 12:13:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
How Episcopalian.
9 posted on 03/15/2015 12:30:19 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Olog-hai
The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah weren’t Hebrews that I recall, nor were the Egyptians.

From what I remember, they tried to get the visiting Angels to have sex with them. From what happened the Angels were not exactly pleased with the proposition.

10 posted on 03/15/2015 12:41:47 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: Olog-hai
What took them so long?

Waiting for the Episcopalians to do it first?

11 posted on 03/15/2015 12:43:33 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Olog-hai

They are so stupid. First of all, Reform synagogues are so top heavy with women that Jewish men do not feel comfortable in them. Every person of leadership is a woman, often including the rabbi, and there is nowhere for male interests and community in these feminist dens. Their liturgy has taken all the male pronouns out of the Torah. I wouldn’t be surprised if they stepped up Brisses to cut a lot more than the foreskin off. And now lesbian families heading a congregation. What man would go to her for help in a crisis? Sad.


12 posted on 03/15/2015 12:45:39 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Hacksaw

Even worse, they intended to rape them. And even when they were stricken with blindness, they tried groping for Lot’s door afterwards.


13 posted on 03/15/2015 12:50:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“the Reform Jewish movement—Eger’s spiritual home since childhood—has traveled a long road toward recognizing and embracing same-sex relationships.”

How many times must I say this!

The correct adjective in “Reformed Jew” is not “Reformed” - it is “Deformed”.

We hope you took notes this time.

;-)

This is correct:
- - “the Deformed Jewish movement—Eger’s spiritual home since childhood—has traveled a long road toward recognizing and embracing same-sex relationships.”

According to one Moshe Rabbenu, queers were “an abomination” in the eyes of the Almighty.

One can’t help wondering what would be the response of either Moses or the Almighty to the “installation” of a lesbian rabbi.


14 posted on 03/15/2015 1:02:59 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Olog-hai
Even worse, they intended to rape them. And even when they were stricken with blindness, they tried groping for Lot’s door afterwards.

I once tried to read the Bible from Genesis to the end and I got hung up somewhere in Proverbs. I think I need to restart on this. I've read the New Testament a lot but not much of the Old.

15 posted on 03/15/2015 1:04:58 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: Olog-hai
As a rabbinic student in 1980s New York, Denise Eger lived away from other seminarians.

Eger Beaver makes good?

16 posted on 03/15/2015 1:08:28 PM PDT by x
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To: Yaelle

And those Jewish women practically worship Lilith!

If you don’t know who she is read this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith


17 posted on 03/15/2015 1:58:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Olog-hai

I did not know the Governor of Oregon was Jewish


18 posted on 03/15/2015 6:47:25 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids
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