Posted on 07/03/2023 10:46:49 AM PDT by Salman
NEW YORK — An advocacy group for young religious LGBTQ Jews has launched a project to provide mental health guidance tailored to the community on social media, in the first initiative of its kind, as surveys show that such youth in the US are at a higher risk for emotional issues and harassment.
The “TikTok therapy” video series will offer advice on topics such as how to discuss dating someone from the same gender with Orthodox parents, or navigating LGBTQ issues that come up in conversation at Shabbat dinners, said Jewish Queer Youth (JQY), a New York-based group that focuses on assisting young people from Orthodox, Hasidic and Sephardic homes.
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New York’s Yeshiva University, the flagship modern Orthodox institution of higher learning, has waged a charged, yearslong battle against its undergraduate campus Pride group. The university refuses to grant the club official recognition, arguing that approving the group would infringe on its religious beliefs.
The suicide of a gay Orthodox graduate of the university in May underscored some of the challenges for LGBTQ community members in the religious world, his friends said.
“Being a young person in the Orthodox Jewish community and realizing you’re queer is not a fun moment. You often feel ashamed and like you have to keep it a secret,” Novich said. “The truth is the challenges continue.”
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I thought Orthodox Jews eschewed the internet, or am I thinking of the Ultra-orthodox?
Religious tip: Jesus probably wasn’t talking about sex change in Matthew 5:29-30. He was probably saying to remove yourself from whatever’s tempting you to sin.
I guess that whole Torah thing isn’t really rules of conduct, it’s more like guidelines.
It is groomers targeting victims.
That’s exactly what Jesus said, to remove yourself from temptation to sin!
Parent to child trying to get parent to accept same-sex dating: “Unnatural sexual acts are gravely offensive to God and end in disease, violence, insanity, murder, and an early grave.”
*Hunches over slightly and rubs hands furiously*
Ultra Orthodox Jews eschew the frivolity of modernity but strive to use the technology for spreading the Torah of G-d.
(and for dominating Amazon and EBay resellers....)
How’s this for fire of love? This is taken from a website disparaging the overall opinion but it puts the quotes in one handy place.
(http://www.billgladstone.ca/schneerson-sneered-at-the-strange-and-queer-1987/)
From the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the memory of the righteous for a blessing) :
Homosexuality is a malady calling for therapy, not political recognition, according to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson.
“Any bill that proclaims that the ‘rights’ of these people must be protected and supported, should be seen for what it really is: it is taking away their right to be really protected (also – from themselves) — it is depriving these people of the vitally needed help!” he said. “In simple physical terms it will bring even more suffering and pain to them, to their loved ones and to all society. Certainly, all must be done to assure that this will not occur.”
He continued: “We are not dealing with the inalienable right of freedom of choice; we are not dealing with the innate and sacred democratic right of free will; we are dealing with an issue of abnormality.
“In simple language, (homosexuality) is a sickness. And just because the patient proclaims, he is normal does not make the malady any less dangerous.”
The Rebbe stresses that “there is no insult intended and no derogatory attitude suggested . . . . When a person is ill and someone volunteers to help him get well, there is no disrespect involved at all.
“A special responsibility lies on the parents, educators and counsellors to educate those afflicted with a loving and caring attitude.”
When one acknowledges that homosexuality is destructive, he will realize “that it is no different from a child who is born with the tendency to tear out his hair or bang his head against the wall. But there is a very tragic difference in that this trait when practiced is much more devasting because it destroys both body and soul.”
The Rebbe’s recent statement was reprinted in Toronto’s chassidic newsletter, The World of Lubavitch.
Homosexuality is totally negative, he said, because it brings no positive results or offspring, causes self-debilitation through the dissipation of the individual’s strength, and fills its practitioners “with the self-abnegating feeling of being strange and queer . . . . They look at the world around them and they know that their practice is abnormal.”
The spiritual leader of the modern Chassidic movement also said that homosexuality “leads to excessive abnormal weakness and to the most horrible diseases and maladies, as we are presently beginning to discover.”
To those who suggest that “strange and queer” people can still enjoy the pleasure and gratifications of their sexual preference, Schneerson used the analogy of a pill of deathly poison coated with sugar. A person who only licks the sugar may “swear the pill is sweet.” But another may come along and say, “I don’t care if there is poison under the sugar, so long as I can enjoy the momentary pleasure of the sweetness. I don’t care what the consequences will be.”
“Is it truly satisfying after the act?” Schneerson asked. “Or does it only provide momentary gratification?”
I was being sarcastic about how an interpretation could be to do what Rush used to refer as having a chopadicoffame.
Aren’t all American Jews L........ No, Israelis, I’m not mentioning you.
Still, we don't yet have a support group for the BDSM community of openly sadomasochistic Hare Krishna Hindus who routinely use Tumblr. They got NO ONE to turn to as they struggle for support in their slave/master sexual relationships!
And what about all the openly gerontophile community of Rastafarians on Wattpad? It's REALLY difficult to come out to other Rastafarians and ADMIT you're sexually attracted to senior citizens.
More progress needs to be made!
Nope. Not even all the non-Orthodox.
Some Orthodox Jews may dress (sort of) like the Amish, but they do not reject technology like the Amish. Just certain uses of it.
Sodomy is prohibited regardless of what means of communication may facilitate it. Sodom itself had no internet or telephones or even newspapers.
I don’t get your point. Are you saying that not all Jews are fagots?
Anyone can claim they are anything...doesn’t make it so.
The Jews are not an organization with centralized command and control. Jewish "leaders" (other than rabbis) tend to be rich connected guys who like to throw their weight around. but Jews not on their payroll do not obey their commands (if then).
Also, the ADL is not The Jews (although they are Jews). You might not understand this from reading about them in The New York Times. Let alone what anti-Semites say.
Full disclosure: I'm a Christian who was born Jewish.
I was joking. I’m somewhat familiar with the various Jewish groups as most of my friends were conservative Jews or Reformed Jews. My father was a Shabbas goy for a number of members of the Lubavitch.
Gotcha. :)
Report them for "Hateful or abusive content". Over and over and over and over.
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