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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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To: NetAddicted
The Bible is clear in its stance on Homosexuality (sodomy) and Homosexual marriage. Throughout the Bible Homosexual behavior and practice is forbidden as a sin against God Himself (Lev 18:22, Lev 20:13, 1 Cor 6:9-10) and breaks the everlasting covenant that God established with man in Genesis 2 & 9, where God told man to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and then to be fruitful and multiply on the earth. This condemnation extends all the way to the New Testament where Homosexual practice is expressly forbidden.

Jesus said in Luke 17 that the last days before his return would be like the days of Lot (Sodom), where homosexuality and pederasty were practiced. Like Sodom, where men broke the everlasting covenant with God by legislating homosexuality and pederasty, the prophet Isaiah predicted 2500 years ago that the entire world would be like this in the last days and would bring judgment on the world...

Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

21 posted on 01/26/2015 3:13:48 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Pollster1

ROTFL


22 posted on 01/26/2015 3:27:58 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: NetAddicted

Talk about a bris gone awry!


23 posted on 01/26/2015 3:36:53 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Jewbacca

Bar Mitzvah/Bat Mitzvah/??? Mitzvah


24 posted on 01/26/2015 3:44:49 PM PST by Bobalu (Programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file)
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To: SandRat

Preaching to the choir. Liberals do not care about words from bibles, this is why the argument was lost long ago.


25 posted on 01/26/2015 3:58:00 PM PST by MaggiesPitchfork
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To: NetAddicted
"family matters, she said, “are difficult . . . strained.”

I can't imagine why!

26 posted on 01/26/2015 4:17:05 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Pollster1

“I really thought I was a puppy,”

LOLMAO! Now that was funny; spit a saltine on that one.


27 posted on 01/26/2015 4:42:04 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: NetAddicted

Don’t count me as a Nazi apologist...but if the Jewish population of Germany in the 1920s and 30s was acting this way, it becomes easier to understand why ethnic Germans would not have been all that upset with what happened to them. Generally, if you’re a minority, it’s best to keep your head down and NOT try to change the majority culture.


28 posted on 01/26/2015 5:06:02 PM PST by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win.)
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To: NetAddicted

29 posted on 01/26/2015 5:07:37 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: NetAddicted

Nothing “orthodox” about visiting Dr. Chopitov.


30 posted on 01/26/2015 5:08:22 PM PST by NorthMountain (No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
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To: NetAddicted
The man who's had TWO sex changes: Incredible story of Walt, who became Laura, then REVERSED the operation because he believes surgeons in US and Europe are too quick to operate
31 posted on 01/26/2015 5:17:06 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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But the really hard thing for Jeffrey Smith was telling his parents he was really Jewish.

Must have felt like Navin R. Johnson, back row, second from left.


32 posted on 01/26/2015 5:21:19 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Albion Wilde

That’s really interesting (although, transgender proponents do a good job of arguing their case). I’ll have to revisit his site, & see what he’s saying now.


33 posted on 01/26/2015 6:07:56 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Jewbacca

It’s hard to avoid cross-dressing these days,except for a man wearing a dress or other ladies clothing, or a woman wearing a man’s suit.


34 posted on 01/26/2015 8:50:12 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: SandRat

Except Jews don’t adhere to the “New” Testament.


35 posted on 01/26/2015 8:52:25 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: NetAddicted

Since when do Ultra-Orthodox Jews go on dates and to the movies?


36 posted on 01/26/2015 8:54:27 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

But they’re supposed to follow G-d’s laws, like Leviticus 20:13.


37 posted on 01/26/2015 10:08:24 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

They go on dates, intending to meet their marriage partners. I don’t know about movies. G rated ones? Gee, guess it’d be hard to find one.


38 posted on 01/26/2015 10:10:58 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Pollster1

Some say Nebuchadnezzar thought is was a cow.


39 posted on 01/26/2015 10:20:02 PM PST by ThomasThomas (EGO venit lego tantum titulus Posteri)
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To: re_nortex

The expressions in that ad are entertaining.


40 posted on 01/26/2015 10:40:48 PM PST by RichInOC (Rich's Undeniable Truth of the Day: We live in absurd times.)
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