Judaism easing up on gay rabbis

YNet ^ | Nov. 30, 2006

[Alouette]

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[Alouette]

homo agenda ping

[misterrob]

Heblews?

[Kenny Bunk]

Easing up on Gay Rabbis?

Alouette, you (or somebody) need a new headline writer!

[onedoug]

So Conservative and Reform will move further and further away form God based religion to eventually have their "feel good" clubs where they will gradually claim belief in everything then eventually nothing.

This was my own experiance in the Anglican church which led me to Orthodox Judaism.

Thank God.

[Yaelle]

This is why I don't belong to a synagogue. LOTS of money to be paid to institutions I don't fully believe in. Thank G-d for the Torah - who needs synagogues if this keeps getting worse? I don't even like the women rabbis.

[APRPEH]

The Conservative Lie

[APRPEH]

you dont need a synagogue. you NEED a Shul (and a Rav)

[Alouette]

you (or somebody) need a new headline writer!

That is the original headline that appeared in YNet and Reuters. FReepers are not supposed to change titles, in order to avoid duplicate posts.

[Alexander Rubin]

Hrmm...Might be time to switch congregations.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

"Conservative Judaism has always taught that we must upgrade our biblical understanding with new scientific knowledge. Contrary to the biblical assumption that gayness is a sinful choice, our best knowledge today indicates that it is as determined and irrevocable as blue or brown eyes ..." he wrote.

I will never get why people fall for that idiotic claim. Hello? Check out your body parts people. You were not born that way.

[TradicalRC]

As a non-Jew I have to scratch my head whenever I read anything about 'conservative' Jews. How are they conservative? Can you post a thumbnail of the different denominations and what exactly distinguishes them? Ty.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"Conservative Judaism has always taught that we must upgrade our biblical understanding with new scientific knowledge. Contrary to the biblical assumption that gayness is a sinful choice, our best knowledge today indicates that it is as determined and irrevocable as blue or brown eyes ..." he wrote.

It's too bad that people in Joshua's day didn't know that Canaanite ethnicity is determined and irrevocable rather than a sinful choice. Those poor Canaanites! [/sarcasm]

Conservative Judaism has always taught that we must upgrade our biblical understanding with new scientific knowledge.

Everyone these days says that, regardless of religious affiliation. Then they blame it all on "those ignorant rednecks." I guess, unlike "gayness" and "Canaaniteness," "redneckery" is a sinful personal choice.

[Zionist Conspirator]

As a non-Jew I have to scratch my head whenever I read anything about 'conservative' Jews. How are they conservative? Can you post a thumbnail of the different denominations and what exactly distinguishes them? Ty.

"Conservative" in this sense isn't so much a descriptive adjective as the formal name of a "branch of Judaism." "Conservative Judaism" is like "Reform Judaism" or "Reconstructionist Judaism" or "Secular-Humanistic Judaism." It's the name of a religion posing as a "branch of Judaism."

They adopted the name "Conservative" because they seceded from the more liberal Reforms in the nineteenth century but didn't return to Orthodoxy. They are "conservative" only as compared to the "branches" on their Left, but since they reject the fundamental doctrine of the Torah being from Heaven their religion is not a form of Judaism at all.

[devolve]

[potlatch]

Barney!

[devolve]

heh

DNC poster boy

[potlatch]

He'll be another clown soon, only a stuffed one.

[devolve]

excellent!