An Orthodox synagogue in West Hempstead, NY is openly welcoming LGBT Jews, a rare public embrace that religious experts see as groundbreaking.
Kehilat Ahavat Yisrael opened in December and is holding services once a month that have drawn as many as 100 from both the LGBT and straight communities, said Shlomit Metz-Poolat, a lesbian who is the synagogue's president and a co-founder.
Orthodox Judaism doesn't condone homosexual relationships, which Metz-Poolat said keeps many LGBT Jews away from services. And those who do go to a synagogue, she said, usually stay silent about their sexual orientation because they fear either losing their membership or not getting an offer to join.
"You're welcome," she said, "just be quiet about it."
Metz-Poolat lost her own membership at a synagogue she had attended for nearly two decades after her marriage to another woman became public. Without a place to worship, she pushed ahead with a plan to establish a synagogue where everyone would be welcome. The congregation meets at Wing Wan, a glatt kosher Chinese restaurant, while it looks for a permanent location.
“LGBT Jews who are Orthodox want a place in Orthodox Judaism,” Metz-Poolat said. “Because this is the only Judaism we know, and it is beautiful to us.”
A top official of the Rabbincal Council of America, an organization of orthodox rabbis nationwide, believes Kehilat Ahavat Yisrael stands out because it is more vocal about its acceptance of LGBT Jews but doesn't see it as unusual.
John Chrysostom, Bishop of Antioch: “The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are lecherous, rapacious, greedy. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the Devil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential that all Christians hate them' (year 379). Furthermore: 'The Jews sacrifice their children to Satan. They are worse than wild beasts. The Synagogue is a brothel, a den of scoundrels, the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults, a criminal assembly of Jews, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, a gulf and abyss of perdition. The Jews have fallen into a condition lower than the vilest animal. Debauchery and drunkenness have brought them to a level of the lusty goat and the pig. They know only one thing: to satisfy their stomachs, to get drunk, to kill, and beat each other up like stage villains and coachmen. The Synagogue is a curse, obstinate in her error, she refuses to see or hear, she has deliberately perverted her judgment; she has extinguished with herself the light of the Holy Spirit.' He elaborated further on God's punishment of the Jews: 'But it was men, says the Jew, who brought these misfortunes upon us, not God. On the contrary, it was in fact God who brought them about. If you attribute them to men, reflect again that even supposing men had dared, they could not have had the power to accomplish them, unless it had been God's will. Men would certainly not have made war unless God had permitted them. Is it not obvious that it was because God hated you [Jews] and rejected you once for all?”
Amos 5:26-27 King James Version (KJV) (Old Testament) But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Leviticus 26: 14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21 “‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
Sorry buddy I'm not here for the bible quotes, I'm here to make puns about a fridge on stilts
Isaiah Wright
Blasphemous.
Henry Diaz
Religious belief should be classified as a psychological disorder as it is based on fantasy not fact. If somebody was ranting about what the non-visible green pixies on the streets were up to, they would be in a sanitarium, but call it "religion", and the government would give them tax breaks.
weird how they swallow their own poison. they kind of have to, because its the worship of minorities and that is their core belief.
Colton Martin
Real sorry to be the parade rainman here buddy but your internet crush is shaped like a rectangle
see that worked on multiple levels because rainman was also a huge autist. fucken clever ay
Colton Flores
All people naturally believe in God. Atheism is a mental disorder that leads to higher rates of suicide, depression and drug abuse atheists also fail their primary function which is to reproduce because they're insufferable pricks that nobody can be around.
Oliver King
you forgot the ending of the book:
Amos 9:9-end
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
translation: after exile and destruction of israel, israel comes back, forever.
2 years ago I would have said these are ravings of a madman. Now I'm facing an uncomfortable realization that de-Chrystianizing the West has been done in order to suppress this knowledge.
Juan Stewart
I was pointing out the Star of David is the Star of Moloch not about the damnation of kikes.
If God is real he doesn't care if you were a jew or a Christian. Religion needs to be stopped as it is the main cause of all the ills of the world. Noone knows how or why we exist and to say that you do and that God gave Moses 10 rules and to cut off the tip of your dick is dumb and naive. Our world only exists by pure chance and we could be taken out at any time by a meteor hurling towards our planet. You jews are wasting your life following your religion and our most definitely adding to the destruction of man kind.
Tyler Clark
>The congregation meets at Wing Wan, a glatt kosher Chinese restaurant, > kosher Chinese restaurant
> tfw Jews are tying to take over Chinks
Dominic Ortiz
That may be true (I wouldn't know, and I'm pretty sure it isn't) however some things I'd like to point out: symbols change meaning overtime. Also moloch is not mentioned in the source (the translation differs) unless he is named with a different name. מולך is not there... And finally, we are seculars, we don't give a damn about molochs and saturns satans and christs and all those memes. We care about Israel. see above ^
Adam Ortiz
That's the exact reason why I hate American goyim, the source of degeneracy. Even (((we))) are susceptible to the American degeneracy.
KILL GOYIM AMERICA
Andrew Moore
>Religion needs to be stopped as it is the main cause of all the ills of the world. Please grow up.
>Our world only exists by pure chance This is a theistic belief retard.
Eli Stewart
Martin Luther Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in-which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them. God's wrath has consigned them to the presumption that their boasting, their conceit, their slander of God, their cursing of all people are a true and a great service rendered to God — all of which is very fitting and becoming to such noble blood of the fathers and circumcised saints. This they believe despite the fact that they know they are steeped in manifest vices mentally, just as the devils themselves do. And where you see or hear a Jew teaching, remember that you are hearing nothing but a venomous basilisk who poisons and kills people merrily by fasten- And with all this, they claim to be doing right. Be on your guard against them!
Caleb Hall
>once a slave always a slave.
Evan Baker
If the United States becomes a multicultural socialist Shithole and loses its former power, then who will defend Israel?
Kayden Myers
>12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom >MFW the Edomites took your religion's and people's name and have been LARPing as you ever since
pff hahahahahah >God warns of hubris >kikes don't listen >forever phase Illegitimate occupation against God's orders and you will be destroyed for it.
Parker Fisher
Your false assumption is that i'm for that outcome. thats false in translation AND the source. it says inherit the land of edom. It largely already happened too.
Nolan Collins
Still blackmailing underaged faggot kids?
Bentley Richardson
>And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them >which I have given them
Kill American goyim I can't see their leftist degenerate scum spoiling based redpilled Judaism.
DEATH TO AMERICAN GOYIM
Alexander Cook
>Jow Forums is portrayed as a brown paco Pretty accurate
Leo Walker
There is not a single cause of problems in the world. Though atheism is a large contributor.
Asher Reed
no you moron, what you INFERRED is false. the translation and the source are both fine. This is not always the case, as ive said, moloch isn't mentioned in the source.
don't even try had couple of arguments with americans here about religion they think they know judaism better than us and they use false and fake information to prove me wrong and won't take anything i say as true and when i do prove them wrong they start calling me kike
Oliver King
>What would you say are the cause of all the problems of the world?
i told a guy at the western wall who was hassling me for change and offering to do prayers with me that i couldnt marry in israel and it felt good
Jackson Hughes
Once America is too weak to cover your asses, you are gone. Arabs are going to kick you out, if demographics don't end your pseudo state even earlier. But your diaspora people keep on weakening America at record speed. Kiss goodbye your "forever". Now.
Jaxon Cox
Is this not a violation of the laws of Moses?
Leo Allen
and why should i give a fuck ?
Alexander Ortiz
Is drinking milk Jewish?
Samuel Baker
That's a different post friendo
Jordan Fisher
Your country is coming around. Rabbis had to divorce a gay couple recently said ur court. The rule of law favors civil interests over religious concoctions at some point when they are clearly patently unfavorable to extending equal protection under the law. You can run from modernity, but not forever.
Caleb Russell
It's the one I was replying to in the first place brainlet.
Nolan Turner
>Rabbis had to divorce a gay couple recently they can't divorce two ppl who are not even married also during the divorce ceremony in judaism there are special roles to the man and the woman you are full of shit go back taking it up the ass degenerate
Jack Diaz
They married outside of Israel. A gay local told me about it. The courts made the rabbis do it. Eat shit bigot.
Lucas Foster
Why are there 8,000 slaves (of which many of them are Russian women) in Israel?
Leo Hall
believe what you want
Joseph Jenkins
You don't care alright, but you are still ruled by a Moloch cult. Somehow every time you attempt to trace the source of evil in the world you always arrive at the same group of (((people))) who happen to have Israeli citizenship. Indeed it would be preferable if you people sorted out this shit by yourself. Unfortunately, the time is running short. The members of pic related have already reincarnated. And like before, the goal of eradicating the Moloch cult will turn into indiscriminate killing of innocents. After all, they are creatures of fire. They love it.
To use another example, there is not a single source which explicitly says that Mary of Magdala was the wife of Jesus, but to most people that's the most obvious interpretation.
>t-the only place in my small country where fags give each other aids and suck and fuck eachother in the streets is the second largest city! OH NO NO NO NO NuuUuuUAHHAHAHHAHAHhAHHAHHA
Leo Gutierrez
yes the left here is extreme they are seen as traitors by the majority
Gavin Garcia
Are the Israelis becoming less religious?
Caleb Harris
What is the position of the media? How is the situation in universities they are left?
Nathan Campbell
the poison cooked up by the d*aspora seeped back into israel and now there are tons of fags, feminists, etc.
Andrew Martinez
we never were very religious to begin with most of the people honor the state much more then god the holocaust destroyed the belief in god
Parker Scott
>jews scream about replacing whites >are shocked that anti-semitism is on the rise
And then some faggot claims jews have average IQs of 110, I think not
the left controls the mainstream media supported by george soros although we have alternatives now and the universities are a safe haven for gays arabs and left leaning people
