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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Screenshot from the film Marry Me However Rabbi Mordechai Vardi is the rabbi of Kibbutz Ein Zurim and a filmmaker. He recently focused his keen eye on his Orthodox community’s inability to offer any credible future to gay and lesbian young people. His film, Marry Me However, (in Hebrew: ....
The Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest has announced that it is hosting a first-of-its-kind virtual tour in collaboration with the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Haifa Museum of Art, the Haifa City Museum, and the San Francisco-Haifa Sister City Committee Sunday, January 17, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. The Zoom event will visit exhibits presented by three museums. CJM will provide a tour of its Levi Strauss: The History of American Style exhibit, while the Haifa Museum of Art will present its exhibit Spaces in Turmoil and the Haifa City Museum will show its What Will the Neighbors Say? that tells the story of the city s LGBTQ community. ....
Introduction The impetus for the document that you are about to read was a scene from Rabbi Mordechai Vardi’s unsettling documentary “Marry Me However,” a film that tells the stories of Orthodox gay men and lesbian women who entered marriages to opposite-sex partners in an attempt to live in accordance with Jewish law and be accepted by their religious families and communities. In that scene, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow remarks that “we [rabbis] know how to say no, but we can’t cite an article or viewpoint that says what is permitted.” Rabbi Cherlow’s reference to our lack of a “yes” regarding same-sex partnerships touched me deeply, because I knew how right he is. For almost 30 years, I have been in contact with LGBTQ+ people and have counseled them and their families. The term that best describes the way the Orthodox community deals with the reality that surrounds us is “confusion.” Few parents want to tear their clothes in mourning and cut off ties with th ....