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http://forward.com/articles/104856/
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Los Angeles — When Denise Eger assumes the leadership of this region’s local rabbinic association, she’ll be making history — twice over.
On May 11, Eger will become not only the first woman to lead the Board of Rabbis of Southern California — one of the nation’s largest rabbinic boards — but also the board’s first openly gay or lesbian president.
courtesy of kol ami
Eger: Rabbi Denise Eger will lead Southern California’s board of rabbis.
Eger, 49, serves as the rabbi of West Hollywood’s gay-and-lesbian-oriented Reform synagogue, Congregation Kol Ami, and has been active on the local board of rabbis for more than a decade. She also has been outspoken on issues of gay and lesbian rights in the Jewish community and beyond — most recently fighting against Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay marriage ballot initiative.
Eger’s ascension to the presidency is a milestone for the 72-year-old association, whose members include Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox rabbis.
“It’s a remarkable development,” said longtime Jewish communal observer Gerald Bubis, founding director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion. “It shows everybody’s maturity in the process that a person who happens to be a woman and happens to be a lesbian would become president.”
The board’s presidency rotates every two years between the movements. Having served as a vice president for the Reform movement for the past six years, Eger is next in line to lead the professional association. A past president of the board, Yosef Kanefsky — a left-leaning Modern Orthodox rabbi — served as chair of the nominating committee. Eger’s election was secured March 17, when the board’s membership vetted her nomination.
Eger is not the first gay or lesbian leader of a North American board of rabbis. The Board of Rabbis of Northern California, which includes San Francisco, has an openly gay president, Allen Bennett.
In an interview with the Forward, Eger said that her ascension to the presidency has profound personal significance. Back in 1992, she explained, when she founded Congregation Kol Ami, an Orthodox rabbi who then served as president of the rabbinic board made disparaging comments about her in a local Jewish newspaper. In the intervening years, Eger has worked to forge better relationships between colleagues from the different movements — despite sharp ideological differences — and has committed herself to interfaith outreach work.
“I’ve really just tried to do my work and serve the Jewish community,” she said. “Now, to be able to be president of the board of rabbis, I think, speaks to the work I’ve done building bridges.”
While rabbinic boards are meant to promote collegiality among rabbis from the different movements, Orthodox participation has waned in recent decades. Southern California’s board of rabbis today counts fewer than two-dozen Orthodox members, out of a total membership of more than 300, according to the board’s executive vice president, Mark Diamond. Of the major urban Jewish population centers, only New York’s 800-member board of rabbis has maintained equal representation among Orthodox, Reform and Conservative rabbis.
Observers say that the shift can be attributed to the rightward drift of Orthodoxy, as well as to the increasingly leftward leanings of the Reform and Conservative movements.Orthodox Judaism forbids homosexual behavior as well as female rabbinic ordination.
Still, some leaders of Southern California’s board of rabbis said they did not think that Eger’s presidency would deter more Orthodox rabbis from joining. “The Orthodox rabbis who have not joined have sadly voted with their feet, and I don’t think the first female or first lesbian president of our board is going to change anything,” Diamond said.
For their part, Orthodox rabbis who do count themselves as members of their local rabbinic associations said that they participate because promoting unity is more important than agreeing on matters of Jewish law. “For me, the klal yisrael piece trumps the ideological factor,” said Michael Balinsky, an Orthodox rabbi who serves as executive vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, referring to the notion of unity between all Jews.
The Chicago Board of Rabbis, which counts roughly 200 members, first had a woman president dating back at least six years, according to Balinsky.
Daniel Bouskila, rabbi of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, a Los Angeles Modern Orthodox synagogue, noted that an Orthodox rabbi would have just as many ideological differences with a male heterosexual rabbi from the Reconstructionist or Reform movement as with a lesbian rabbi. “This is not a red line that’s being crossed,” said Bouskila, who also serves as a vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.
If anything, the board’s Orthodox representation will only increase under Eger’s watch, according to Diamond. “I cannot think of a colleague at the board more committed to other rabbis, and more committed to the klal yisrael work we do,” he said of the incoming president.
Contact Rebecca Spence at [email protected].
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She is no Rabbi, she's a walking mockery of Judaism, her status of "Rabbi" is an impossibility under the laws of Judaism, it's a non starter, the insane left wing radicals of California are trying to make a mockery of Judaism just like they do of all sacred things.
It would be far better if this deranged woman lived a secular life as the lesbian counterculture freak that she is, and have nothing to do with Judaism, than the commit this insult to the religion by calling hereself a "Rabbi", right there she is ignoring the law and putting herself above the Torah, there are roles for women in Judaism, Rabbi is not one of them. I have no idea what this sin she is committing warrants, but I bet it is a doozy! She'd be much better off slinking off to the rock she crawled out from under.
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She is no Rabbi, she's a walking mockery of Judaism, her status of "Rabbi" is an impossibility under the laws of Judaism, it's a non starter, the insane left wing radicals of California are trying to make a mockery of Judaism just like the do of all sacred things. It would be far better if this deranged woman lived a secular life as the lesbian counterculture freak that she is, and have nothing to do with Judaism, than the commit the insult to the religion by calling hereself a "Rabbi", right there she is ignoring the law and putting herself above the Torah. I have no idea what this sin she is committing warrants, but I bet it is a doozy! She'd be much better off slinking off to the rock she crawled out from under.
I agree any orthodox Rabbi who has any interaction with the lesbian should be shunned.
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For their part, Orthodox rabbis who do count themselves as members of their local rabbinic associations said that they participate because promoting unity is more important than agreeing on matters of Jewish law. “For me, the klal yisrael piece trumps the ideological factor,” said Michael Balinsky, an Orthodox rabbi who serves as executive vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, referring to the notion of unity between all Jews.
This will kill him earlier or later spiritually. First he tolerates it and later he will accept it. The world has a lot to offer and pleasure is much easier to get without rules ...
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Something for us jews to be proud of. Our first lesbian daughter. Blech
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It doesn't matter that much that she is heading this board of 'rabbis', but the fact that such an organization that accepts on principle this abominations exists, with support and participation of orthodox rabbis. Whose going to be next ? I am guessing a Schwartze Hebro Transvestite 'rabbi'.
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It doesn't matter that much that she is heading this board of 'rabbis', but the fact that such an organization that accepts on principle this abominations exists, with support and participation of orthodox rabbis. Whose going to be next ? I am guessing a Schwartze Hebro Transvestite 'rabbi'.
Don't paint this on the wall Zelhar. Leftists could read here and find it is a good idea. :::D
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I think they have a real Rabbinic association of real Rabbis
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This is nothing more than a pure insult to Hashem. This is not Jewish, nor is it spiritual, nor is it for the good. There is nothing good which is going to come from such a hypocritical and evil association. I would advise any real Jew to distance himself from this so-called institution. This is as bad , or worse, than setting up IDOLS in the holy temple. Hashem will wash the earth once again from these heretics.
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TRUE!!
She is no Rabbi, she's a walking mockery of Judaism, her status of "Rabbi" is an impossibility under the laws of Judaism, it's a non starter, the insane left wing radicals of California are trying to make a mockery of Judaism just like they do of all sacred things.
It would be far better if this deranged woman lived a secular life as the lesbian counterculture freak that she is, and have nothing to do with Judaism, than the commit this insult to the religion by calling hereself a "Rabbi", right there she is ignoring the law and putting herself above the Torah, there are roles for women in Judaism, Rabbi is not one of them. I have no idea what this sin she is committing warrants, but I bet it is a doozy! She'd be much better off slinking off to the rock she crawled out from under.
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http://forward.com/articles/104856/
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Los Angeles — When Denise Eger assumes the leadership of this region’s local rabbinic association, she’ll be making history — twice over.
On May 11, Eger will become not only the first woman to lead the Board of Rabbis of Southern California — one of the nation’s largest rabbinic boards — but also the board’s first openly gay or lesbian president.
courtesy of kol ami
Eger: Rabbi Denise Eger will lead Southern California’s board of rabbis.
Eger, 49, serves as the rabbi of West Hollywood’s gay-and-lesbian-oriented Reform synagogue, Congregation Kol Ami, and has been active on the local board of rabbis for more than a decade. She also has been outspoken on issues of gay and lesbian rights in the Jewish community and beyond — most recently fighting against Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay marriage ballot initiative.
Eger’s ascension to the presidency is a milestone for the 72-year-old association, whose members include Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox rabbis.
“It’s a remarkable development,” said longtime Jewish communal observer Gerald Bubis, founding director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion. “It shows everybody’s maturity in the process that a person who happens to be a woman and happens to be a lesbian would become president.”
The board’s presidency rotates every two years between the movements. Having served as a vice president for the Reform movement for the past six years, Eger is next in line to lead the professional association. A past president of the board, Yosef Kanefsky — a left-leaning Modern Orthodox rabbi — served as chair of the nominating committee. Eger’s election was secured March 17, when the board’s membership vetted her nomination.
Eger is not the first gay or lesbian leader of a North American board of rabbis. The Board of Rabbis of Northern California, which includes San Francisco, has an openly gay president, Allen Bennett.
In an interview with the Forward, Eger said that her ascension to the presidency has profound personal significance. Back in 1992, she explained, when she founded Congregation Kol Ami, an Orthodox rabbi who then served as president of the rabbinic board made disparaging comments about her in a local Jewish newspaper. In the intervening years, Eger has worked to forge better relationships between colleagues from the different movements — despite sharp ideological differences — and has committed herself to interfaith outreach work.
“I’ve really just tried to do my work and serve the Jewish community,” she said. “Now, to be able to be president of the board of rabbis, I think, speaks to the work I’ve done building bridges.”
While rabbinic boards are meant to promote collegiality among rabbis from the different movements, Orthodox participation has waned in recent decades. Southern California’s board of rabbis today counts fewer than two-dozen Orthodox members, out of a total membership of more than 300, according to the board’s executive vice president, Mark Diamond. Of the major urban Jewish population centers, only New York’s 800-member board of rabbis has maintained equal representation among Orthodox, Reform and Conservative rabbis.
Observers say that the shift can be attributed to the rightward drift of Orthodoxy, as well as to the increasingly leftward leanings of the Reform and Conservative movements.Orthodox Judaism forbids homosexual behavior as well as female rabbinic ordination.
Still, some leaders of Southern California’s board of rabbis said they did not think that Eger’s presidency would deter more Orthodox rabbis from joining. “The Orthodox rabbis who have not joined have sadly voted with their feet, and I don’t think the first female or first lesbian president of our board is going to change anything,” Diamond said.
For their part, Orthodox rabbis who do count themselves as members of their local rabbinic associations said that they participate because promoting unity is more important than agreeing on matters of Jewish law. “For me, the klal yisrael piece trumps the ideological factor,” said Michael Balinsky, an Orthodox rabbi who serves as executive vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, referring to the notion of unity between all Jews.
The Chicago Board of Rabbis, which counts roughly 200 members, first had a woman president dating back at least six years, according to Balinsky.
Daniel Bouskila, rabbi of Sefardic Temple Tifereth Israel, a Los Angeles Modern Orthodox synagogue, noted that an Orthodox rabbi would have just as many ideological differences with a male heterosexual rabbi from the Reconstructionist or Reform movement as with a lesbian rabbi. “This is not a red line that’s being crossed,” said Bouskila, who also serves as a vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.
If anything, the board’s Orthodox representation will only increase under Eger’s watch, according to Diamond. “I cannot think of a colleague at the board more committed to other rabbis, and more committed to the klal yisrael work we do,” he said of the incoming president.
Contact Rebecca Spence at [email protected].
She looks like a forty nine year old Woman to me. She looks neither ugly nor pretty to me and I can not see what her looks have got to do with it, like should Rabbis be picked from amongst the ranks of Jewish fashion models, rather than people have made a study of the Torah?
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
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She is the perfect "Rabbi" for Spielberg and those types of informing kappos.
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Very sad matter /// :-[ :(
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Rabbis have to be men don't they? So that California board seems like it has to be a reform organization. That's so strange to me that they would allow a board like that to be so disgraced. Ashkenazi Jewish people score the highest on intelligence tests of any other people in the world, so why are most Jewish organizations always so bad?
“It’s a remarkable development,” said longtime Jewish communal observer Gerald Bubis, founding director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion. “It shows everybody’s maturity in the process that a person who happens to be a woman and happens to be a lesbian would become president.”
What is this bull excrement?
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Rest assured, I will be praying that a Nazi Aztlanist (because I'm sure she loves illegals) driving a gigantic meat truck to a non-kosher butcher shop (because I'm sure she eats pork) plows head-on into her Prius at 70 mph while she drives home from her "shul".
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She, she, she who? Are you talking about that man in the picture wearing lipstick who has the misspelled name? The people that wrote the article cannot even spell Dennis properly, I wouldn't believe them!
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P.S. He needs a haircut desperately!
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In my town, there is a reconstructionist "synagogue" which is also lead by a lesbian "rabbi." She is the president of the reconstructionist rabbinical assembly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer)
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In my town, there is a reconstructionist "synagogue" which is also lead by a lesbian "rabbi." She is the president of the reconstructionist rabbinical assembly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer)
Lesbianism is prohibited in Judaism. It falls under the command of not immitating the ways of the Mitzrayim {Egyptians}. In ancient Egypt lesbianism was very popular and Hashem commanded the Hebrews to shun anything which is popular in Egyptian culture. Any Jew who claims to be a lesbian is simply fooling themselves.
There is no salvation, no soul, and no G-d who will help those who follow false religions. Liberal reconstructured or reformed judaism is a death sentence. Those who follow these leaders are being led to doom. May Hashem remove the evil from our midst speedily and in our times.
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I would laugh at this story, because it is funny, but it is a supreme desecration of the Jewish faith.
But Christianity is loaded with faggot dreck too; ever heard of the Metropolitan Community Brothel (oops, I meant Church)?
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I would laugh at this story, because it is funny, but it is a supreme desecration of the Jewish faith.
But Christianity is loaded with faggot dreck too; ever heard of the Metropolitan Community Brothel (oops, I meant Church)?
You are of cause right. :'(
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The woman posing as a Rabbi is obviously perverted. This fake Rabbi is using the Holy Torah as some sort of ( tool ) to serve her own message of
" Homosexuality is accepted by G-d "
I think this woman is evil.
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In my town, there is a reconstructionist "synagogue" which is also lead by a lesbian "rabbi." She is the president of the reconstructionist rabbinical assembly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer)
Lesbianism is prohibited in Judaism. It falls under the command of not immitating the ways of the Mitzrayim {Egyptians}. In ancient Egypt lesbianism was very popular and Hashem commanded the Hebrews to shun anything which is popular in Egyptian culture. Any Jew who claims to be a lesbian is simply fooling themselves.
There is no salvation, no soul, and no G-d who will help those who follow false religions. Liberal reconstructured or reformed judaism is a death sentence. Those who follow these leaders are being led to doom. May Hashem remove the evil from our midst speedily and in our times.
So tanks are not allowed for the Israeli Defense Forces then?
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/chariots.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4Pk9M1XvI
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
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In my town, there is a reconstructionist "synagogue" which is also lead by a lesbian "rabbi." She is the president of the reconstructionist rabbinical assembly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_Spitzer)
Lesbianism is prohibited in Judaism. It falls under the command of not immitating the ways of the Mitzrayim {Egyptians}. In ancient Egypt lesbianism was very popular and Hashem commanded the Hebrews to shun anything which is popular in Egyptian culture. Any Jew who claims to be a lesbian is simply fooling themselves.
There is no salvation, no soul, and no G-d who will help those who follow false religions. Liberal reconstructured or reformed judaism is a death sentence. Those who follow these leaders are being led to doom. May Hashem remove the evil from our midst speedily and in our times.
So tanks are not allowed for the Israeli Defense Forces then?
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/chariots.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4Pk9M1XvI
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
Tanks have nothing to do with the commandment in the Torah. As I said before, the command to not immitate the ways of Egypt has to do with sexual relations between women and another woman... Do you think you are being funny? I think you are being childish..
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So tanks are not allowed for the Israeli Defense Forces then?
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/chariots.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4Pk9M1XvI
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
Save it for the Al-Manar forum, Gaydrian Wanker...
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I would laugh at this story, because it is funny, but it is a supreme desecration of the Jewish faith.
But Christianity is loaded with faggot dreck too; ever heard of the Metropolitan Community Brothel (oops, I meant Church)?
Those people are SICK SICK SICK