By Jamie Kirchick
Published in Tablet Magazine
When Zvi Bellin, a gay Washingtonian, heard that a vigil was being organized by members of the gay and Jewish communities in the Capitol to memorialize the victims of the Tel Aviv gay youth center shooting, he decided to invite Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld. Herzfeld, who leads the modern Orthodox Ohev Sholom synagogue in Shepherd Park, is a member of the only movement of mainstream American Judaism that views homosexuality as issur d’oraita, something that is proscribed by the Torah. Thousands of years after the Jewish holy text was transmitted from God’s mouth to man’s ears, Orthodox Judaism’s classification of sexual relations between people of the same gender remains unerring: “an abomination.†But whatever the conservative doctrines of his faith, Herzfeld recognized an important Jewish value at stake in the Tel Aviv massacre: that some Jews would take halakhic prohibitions against homosexuality to mean that homosexuals are themselves an abomination and thus unworthy in the eyes of God.
“I said it would be my honor,†Herzfeld told me about the invitation offered by Bellin, who is gay and attends Ohev Sholom. Herzfeld turned what would have been a somber commemoration of a tragedy into an inspiring, even newsworthy, event. In his brief speech, he called upon Orthodox congregations to take a “communal pledge declaring that we will not create a climate of gay-bashing,†wowing his mostly gay, Dupont Circle audience.
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I don’t find it particularly supportive to say “gays are ‘abomination’, but we still love you.” In fact, it’s pretty passive/aggressive.
Everyone deserves much more respect than the condemnation that this pastor is professing.
Rabbi Herzfeld is truly an extraordinary person when it comes to Orthodox outreach without putting on a pseudo-liberal hat just for the show, and as he’s been widely published and recognized at his relatively young age already, it’s rather that he’s having his well-deserved era of fame.
I’m not sure whether this guy was just looking for a moment of fame, or is it Jamie Kirchick that doesn’t realize that she can find many orthodox rabbis that would do the same!
I like it though, glad it brings a good light on some people!
good for him!