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How an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man became a transgender activist
NY Post ^ | 1/25/2014 | Gary Buiso

Posted on 01/26/2015 2:50:39 PM PST by NetAddicted

To the world, he was Jeffrey Smith, an ultra-Orthodox Jew and spiritual leader teaching the Torah to hundreds of students in Jerusalem’s Hasidic community. But inside, Smith was keeping a secret. “Since I was 5 years old, I really thought I was a girl,” Smith, 63, told The Post in an interview last week from Israel, where she has been living for the past two years — as an Orthodox Jewish woman — following sex-reassignment surgery. As a boy growing up in Patchogue, LI, Smith knew early on that something was amiss. But there was no Internet to tell her what being transgender was all about. Whatever it was, Smith instinctively knew to keep quiet about it. “How does a 5-year-old in 1956 tell his mother he’s really a girl?” she said. At Patchogue HS on Long Island, Smith dated women, but relationships were short-lived. “I loved ­being with them, going to movies, but I always felt like I had to do more — and it didn’t feel right,” she said.

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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; judaism; transexual; ultraorthodox
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It says he still goes to synagogue, but I bet it's not ultra-Orthodox. I read this in a Jewish email, probably the Forward. They're pushing the homosexual agenda very hard. I read recently a transgender was not allowed to pray at the Western Wall, but I know Chassids are very accepting of fellow Jews, even mentally disturbed ones.
1 posted on 01/26/2015 2:50:39 PM PST by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted

” I really **thought** I was a girl”

See! Science!!


2 posted on 01/26/2015 2:52:08 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: NetAddicted

to ISIS a Jewish neck is a Jewish neck


3 posted on 01/26/2015 2:55:37 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: NetAddicted; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

It started with a knife or hormone treatments, I’m assuming


4 posted on 01/26/2015 2:57:08 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

What is it with the media and especially the north east media who are infatuated with this perversion and sickness.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 3:00:23 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: NetAddicted

why are there no bald transgendered um, women.

Do they wear wigs?


6 posted on 01/26/2015 3:00:30 PM PST by PGR88
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To: NetAddicted

I know the feeling:

To the world, I was Pollster1, an ultra-traditional Protestant and spiritual leader teaching the Bible to dozens of students in my church’s Sunday School community. But inside, I was keeping a secret. “Since I was 5 years old, I really thought I was a puppy,” I told The Post in an interview last week from the People’s Republic of Maryland, where I have been living for the past two years — as an adorable Golden Retriever — following species-reassignment surgery. As a boy growing up in Baltimore, MD, I knew early on that something was amiss. But there was no Internet to tell me what being transspecies was all about. Whatever it was, I instinctively knew to keep quiet about it. “How does a 5-year-old in 1966 tell his mother he’s really a puppy?” I said. At Loch Raven High in Baltimore, I dated humans, but relationships were short-lived, even when measured in dog years. “I loved ­being with them, going for walks in the park, but they never wanted to play fetch — and it didn’t feel right,” I said.


7 posted on 01/26/2015 3:03:37 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: a fool in paradise

slip of the sharp tongue maybe


8 posted on 01/26/2015 3:03:38 PM PST by GeronL
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To: NetAddicted

“...and it didn’t feel right,” she said.”

Again with the “feelings”. What if everyone went around acting upon their “feelings”? Like those who “feel” like they should kill someone, despite limitations such as laws, morality, and common sense.

What if we all went around “feeling” like we weren’t humans?

“Today, I “feel” like a bird. That means I can jump off the roof and fly without any repercussions.”

“Today I “feel” like I’m a grapefruit. That means that if I were to be chopped up and eaten, I wouldn’t feel a thing.”


9 posted on 01/26/2015 3:03:58 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ( 'We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.')
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To: NetAddicted

I wouldn’t touch this thread with a ten foot matzah ball.


10 posted on 01/26/2015 3:04:06 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: NetAddicted

Cross dressing is specifically forbidden in Judaism, as is homosexuality.

Whatever he is, he’s not an observant Jew.

Reminds me of the self-proclaimed female Rabbis and Catholic priests.


12 posted on 01/26/2015 3:06:00 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To the world, he was Jeffrey Smith, an ultra-Orthodox Jew and spiritual leader teaching the Torah to hundreds of students in Jerusalem’s Hasidic community. ... “How does a 5-year-old in 1956 tell his mother he’s really a girl?”

But the really hard thing for Jeffrey Smith was telling his parents he was really Jewish.

13 posted on 01/26/2015 3:06:45 PM PST by x
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I read this in a Jewish email, probably the Forward.

There is absolutely nothing authentically Jewish about the Jewish Daily Forward in spite of its name. It's just another communist propaganda source in the mold of ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC and, increasingly, Faux "News". The picture (from the 30s) of a front page shows all that needs to be said about that mouthpiece for union thugs and a socialist president whose election was the ruination of a once free Republic:


14 posted on 01/26/2015 3:07:04 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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But there was no Internet to tell her what being transgender was all about. …
The evil Intarwebs. But this kind of stuff was going on long before it came about.
15 posted on 01/26/2015 3:07:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: PGR88

DHT, a breakdown from testosterone, is what causes hair loss in susceptible men.

Hormone treatments certainly stop hair loss, and often reverse it.

Rather large price to pay, however.


16 posted on 01/26/2015 3:07:58 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: NetAddicted

That’s what happens when the Mohel has shaky hands!


17 posted on 01/26/2015 3:08:33 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: NetAddicted

Transgendered Lois Lane love-slave to Transgendered Super Freak..
disguised as mild mannered Kenya Clarkson..
reporter for the newspaper The Daily Freakshow..

based in (had to be) San Fransicko...

it can freaky living Bizarro United States..


18 posted on 01/26/2015 3:08:37 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: NetAddicted

Smith was a Lubavitch ba’al teshuvah as an adult, not a FFB. BTs frequently bring baggage, with which Chabad is usually unbelievably patient.


19 posted on 01/26/2015 3:09:24 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: Pollster1

LOL.


20 posted on 01/26/2015 3:09:36 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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