Guerilla Campaign Against Gay Conversion Launched In Orthodox Jewish Community
Hod, an organization devoted to supporting the gay community in the Orthodox Jewish community, has been conducting a guerrilla campaign in Tel Aviv’s most religious areas.
It isn’t easy being gay in the Orthodox Jewish community, and it’s extremely hard in the Tel-Aviv area. Hod is an organization that supports religious homosexuals and is working to make their lives easier. According to Hod’s campaign, Haredi homosexuals are forced to undergo conversion therapy by their community rabbis. For the past few months the group has been placing signs on everyday objects with messages that mock conversion therapy:
The Hod website states, “We believe that a considerable part of the hatred directed towards homosexuals is a consequence of ignorance, lack of awareness and the absence of accessible information for religious people about homosexuality and its extent.”
While most mainstream Orthodox Jewish communities have rejected conversion therapy, some practices are still conducted in the country’s Haredi communities.
The video closes with the lines, “We shall not rest and will not despair until everyone accepts us as we are.”
H/T:Queerty.com
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ilanas2 2 months agoAre you saying it is hard to be religious in Tel Aviv because it is known to be a rather secular city in Israel or are you not sure about what’s going on? I don’t understand how it is “hard” to be religious anywhere in Israel which is full to the brim of Haredim. It is hard to be a homosexual, religious Jew, but much more so in Jerusalem than in Tel Aviv which has been voted one of the most gay-friendly cities year after year. Also, religious Jews do not represent the entire community when it comes to the acceptance of homosexuals (to Sonik below).
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SushiKahn 2 months agoPerhaps Ms Karlan is referring to the conflict between the religious and the secular that is on full display in Tel Aviv as what is particularly hard about being gay and religious in Tel Aviv. Seeing gay men be out and proud is probably very challenging to religious men who cannot be out and proud to their families and likely have internalized a lot of the homophobia that is entrenched in any religiously fundamentalist community (Christians and Muslims included). Sonik below is revealing himself to be an anti-Jewish bigot by conflating the suffering of the Jewish PEOPLE with the suffering inflicted by the Jewish RELIGION. Not all Jews are orthodox or even religious, but of course the Nazis didn’t push just the black hats in the ovens, they took everyone. Those more interested in understanding the tension between Judaism and homosexuality should read “Wrestling with God and Men” by Steven Greenberg: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0299190943/?tag=buzz0f-20
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SushiKahn 2 months ago
Just to reiterate: you’re a bigot. The Jewish people are not exclusively defined by the Jewish faith, especially the ultra-orthodox. The Jewish people are as progressive as any body politic can be, and are the most open of the three Abrahamic faiths in accepting homosexuals. Furthermore, no one is exterminating homosexuals (well, except the Muslims). Conversion therapy does not equal death camps, OK? I hope you understand how offensive and shameful your bigotry is.
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