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Last update - 03:55 29/03/2007 Israel's Conservative seminary says no to homosexual students By Amiram Barkat Gay and lesbian students will not be admitted to Jerusalem's Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, the rabbinical school of the Conservative (Masorti) Movement in Israel, following a decision by the seminary's dean, Rabbi Dr. Einat Ramon. In December, the world Conservative movement decided to permit the ordination of homosexuals. Ramon's announcement came a day after the movement's flagship educational institution, New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, moved to admit gay and lesbian rabbinical school applicants. In explaining her decision, Ramon cited the "historic centrality of heterosexual unions to Judaism." She said that Jewish law did and does unconditionally oppose sexual relations between people of the same gender, and that Schechter accepts only those students who are committed to an observant lifestyle. "I am sorry that Rabbi Ramon, who as a feminist has enjoyed the option afforded to women to become rabbis, has not continued the trend begun by Jewish feminism," Rabbi David Lazar, rabbi of the Masorti (Conservative) Congregation Tiferet Shalom in Tel Aviv, said in response. Lazar supports the ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis and gay marriage. He said Ramon does not realize that the institution of the family has developed recently and that many homosexual couples give birth to children. Advertisement Bookmark to del.icio.us   60 years later The JNF is reportedly planning to commemorate demolished Palestinian villages. Mika and Amy Mika says he would like to work with Amy Winehouse on her 'Jewish album'.   1.   one day at a time 04:23  |  Yehuda 29/03/07   2.   Ramon`s is typical Zionist responce 05:26  |  Regev 29/03/07   3.   "equal" has nothing to do with it 05:33  |  Dror 29/03/07   4.   homosexual thought control 05:37  |  Dror 29/03/07   5.   Hypocrites 06:02  |  Ofer 29/03/07   6.   Where do you draw the line? 06:05  |  Herman Segal 29/03/07   7.   #4Dror: Willful sexuality? 06:32  |  Chuck 29/03/07   8.   response to 3,4 your ignorance is dangerous 06:41  |  SJ 29/03/07   9.   ? 07:34  |  Vitaliy 29/03/07   10.   "...many homosexual couples"? 07:47  |  Webster 29/03/07   11.   "Abomination" 07:47  |  Dani Reiss 29/03/07   12.   reply to webster # 8 08:21  |  SJ 29/03/07   13.   Just another Ste 08:30  |  Meir Dee 29/03/07   14.   @ SJ no. 11 : Well said ! 09:59  |  Aaron 29/03/07   15.   to SJ 10:06  |  David G 29/03/07   16.   they are better off in Israel 10:09  |  Alon Fisher 29/03/07   17.   @ 12 : homosexuality is here since mankind. 10:10  |  Aaron 29/03/07   18.   Religion and discrimination 11:04  |  Chris Linthwaite 29/03/07   19.   The Jerusalem seminary will eventually see their error 11:06  |  AV 29/03/07   20.   Sickness or genetic? 11:16  |  Mayer 29/03/07   21.   support from France 11:17  |  Gilbert 29/03/07   22.   Homosexual jewish guilt trips 11:20  |  Dror 29/03/07   23.   The gay fight, and the gay agenda 11:32  |  Dror 29/03/07   24.   to militant Dror 11:40  |  the pope 29/03/07   25.   To Dror #3 11:46  |  Harald 29/03/07   26.   If Women can be "Rabbis" why not Homos?? 11:48  |  Yaakov Ish Tam 29/03/07   27.   mayer and sickness 11:56  |  A.M. 29/03/07   28.   Feminist? Rabbi? The Ramon Farce 11:56  |  Bibi 29/03/07   29.   Tough so that means O`sullivan wouldn`t make it 12:00  |  Ari ben Yisrael 29/03/07   30.   The nazis!! The Nazis!!! 12:17  |  Dror 29/03/07   31.   Wrong 12:49  |  Jack 29/03/07   32.   Conservative halakha is holy 13:29  |  AV 29/03/07   33.   Each society develops at its own pace 13:37  |  Tosefta 29/03/07   34.   Dror and the Nazis 13:58  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   35.   Morality trumps genetics 14:18  |  Menachem Ben Yakov 29/03/07   36.   homosexual 14:30  |  Ralph 29/03/07   37.   You do not have permission to silence me. 14:31  |  Joe 29/03/07   38.   Tosefta - a question or two 14:32  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   39.   Hope for Masortis, after all 14:43  |  whomever 29/03/07   40.   to AV.. here`s some advice 14:45  |  Scott 29/03/07   41.   Jack- tell that to the righteous amongst the six million murdered 14:57  |  Dror 29/03/07   42.   The golden spirit of Josh Goldman 14:58  |  Tosefta 29/03/07   43.   To Meir Dee of Jerusalem 15:02  |  Daveed 29/03/07   44.   Tosefta 15:06  |  ODP 29/03/07   45.   Mr. Goldman 15:07  |  Dror 29/03/07   46.   #6 Maybe the lesson here is......... 15:16  |  T A Sheppard 29/03/07   47.   Menachem ben Yaakov 15:17  |  Dror 29/03/07   48.   Josh 15:22  |  ODP 29/03/07   49.   Homosexuality is an illness that needs therapy 15:28  |  Dr William Richards 29/03/07   50.   actually Dror 15:46  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   51.   Correction: Halakha on gays (ODP #44) 16:10  |  Tosefta 29/03/07   52.   Reform Hallacha is even holier!! 16:12  |  Maimon 29/03/07   53.   Religon and sexuality 16:27  |  B 29/03/07   54.   Mr. Goldman 16:29  |  Dror 29/03/07   55.   "Dr." Wiliam Richards is full of it. 16:44  |  Jim 29/03/07   56.   What a mistake... 16:48  |  Marisa 29/03/07   57.   B- what`s your view on anal sex? 17:23  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   58.   Gay Rabbis 17:37  |  Danite 29/03/07   59.   Priest`s og G-d 17:40  |  Haile Wolete Selassi 29/03/07   60.   Gay Agenda 18:12  |  Dror 29/03/07   61.   Fascism = Imposing your will on others forcibly 18:25  |  Dror 29/03/07   62.   Danite - a question 18:32  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   63.   Josh Goldman 19:16  |  B 29/03/07   64.   50Josh. Religious individuals, homosexuals & a entire community. 19:34  |  curious 29/03/07   65.   Excuse me everyone, but this conversation is becoming... 19:45  |  happy but not gay 29/03/07   66.   SJ, #12 19:49  |  Webster 29/03/07   67.   34Josh and the Nazis. 19:53  |  common sense 29/03/07   68.   Betrayal of conscience 20:18  |  Dror 29/03/07   69.   Homosexuals were put in the Boxcars along w/Jews 21:02  |  Bash`em 29/03/07   70.   To #55 - Jim 21:14  |  Bash`em 29/03/07   71.   Bashem, I love the word homosexual! 22:22  |  Jim 29/03/07   72.   69#haaretz complaint 22:48  |  Alon Fisher 29/03/07   73.   Standing up for Right 23:07  |  Salty 29/03/07   74.   for `curious` 23:37  |  Josh Goldman 29/03/07   75.   THE Happiest Democracy in The Me 23:44  |  Labhras 29/03/07   76.   Josh hello Good questions 00:13  |  Danite 30/03/07   77.   74Josh. Question-Answer? 00:44  |  curious 30/03/07   78.   Curious - an irrelevant question 01:56  |  Josh Goldman 30/03/07   79.   Thanks Danite 03:03  |  Josh Goldman 30/03/07   80.   If you feel being gay is a choice, then you are bisexual 03:46  |  Jack 30/03/07   81.   Anal sex 04:10  |  AV 30/03/07   82.   The Tora DOESNT forbid homosexuality (but it forbids idolatry) 04:29  |  AV 30/03/07   83.   What was Conservative again? 04:32  |  Efox 30/03/07   84.   re: SJ 04:37  |  Efox 30/03/07   85.   The Tora DOESNT forbid homosexuality (but it forbids idolatry) 2 04:38  |  AV 30/03/07   86.   re: Dani Reiss 04:44  |  Efox 30/03/07   87.   The Talmud DOESNT forbid homosexuality (but it forbids anal sex) 04:55  |  AV 30/03/07   88.   The Talmud DOESNT forbid homosexuality (but it forbids anal sex)2 05:14  |  AV 30/03/07   89.   The Talmud DOESNT forbid homosexuality (but it forbids anal sex)3 05:44  |  AV 30/03/07   90.   Frot 06:02  |  AV 30/03/07   91.   AV 06:25  |  Danite 30/03/07   92.   AV, #79, #82, #84, #85.... 06:27  |  Rabbi David Roth 30/03/07   93.   we haven`t learned from the destruction of sodom and gomorrah. 07:07  |  maria 30/03/07   94.   Dror and his Thirteen Posts 08:21  |  Chuck 30/03/07   95.   Danite #91 08:55  |  Sara 30/03/07   96.   Orthodox Gay Ordination hopefully next? 19:40  |  David 30/03/07   97.   God destroyed Sodom because citizens oppressed the poor 20:28  |  AV 30/03/07   98.   Dror`s Throat and Thought Control 21:21  |  The Golem 31/03/07   99.   Gay People and Survival of the Species 21:30  |  The Golem 31/03/07   100.   equality 03:00  |  Will 01/04/07   101.   #100, Will 03:17  |  Baruch 02/04/07   102.   seminary 16:17  |  Greenie 17/07/07   103.   Conservative Judaism 00:29  |  David 04/02/08

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