Posted on 06/28/2009 7:17:22 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.
But Katz's life could hardly be more different from that prewar eastern European culture, at least in one key respect: He is Poland's first openly gay rabbi.
Born in Argentina 53 years ago to parents who fled Poland before the Holocaust, Katz is the latest rabbi to play his part in reviving a once vibrant Jewish community that was all but wiped out by Hitler.
He settled into Warsaw's historic Jewish district in March with Kevin Gleason, a former Hollywood producer on such reality TV shows as "The Bachelor" and "Nanny 911," with whom he entered into a registered domestic partnership in Los Angeles two years ago.
They live only three streets from the birth home of Katz's father in a modern and spacious apartment with their dogs, two gentle brown boxers. Katz says he is moved by the links to his past, but keeps his focus on the future.
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Just what Poland...or any place...needs.A proud pervert.
I thought Poland was pretty strongly Catholic and anti-homosexual. How is a gay Jew going to help relations between Catholics and Jews?
He isn’t
“Oy! You call this a decorating job? Let me show you some fabrics that will make that sofa pop!”
Sort of like a kosher restaurant the serves cheeseburgers. The AP will believe and repeat anything that undermines our cultural underpinning.
ML/NJ
Leviticus 18:22.
The left always pretends....
Reform Rabbi! Official JINO.
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