{"id":39989,"date":"2016-06-23T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/an-orthodox-rabbi-walked-into-a-gay-bar-what-happened-next-may-surprise-you\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:25:58","slug":"an-orthodox-rabbi-walked-into-a-gay-bar-what-happened-next-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/an-orthodox-rabbi-walked-into-a-gay-bar-what-happened-next-may-surprise-you\/","title":{"rendered":"An Orthodox Rabbi Walked Into A Gay Bar\u2026 What Happened Next May Surprise You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>An Orthodox Rabbi Walked Into A Gay Bar\u2026 What Happened Next May Surprise You<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/\/2016\/06\/orthodox-jewish-man-670x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard about the horrific shooting at a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> nightclub in Orlando, Florida, while our synagogue in Washington was celebrating Shavuot,&rdquo;&nbsp;Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes in a new think piece&nbsp;published by&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/comment-and-debate\/comment\/159666\/im-american-orthodox-rabbi-and-i-visited-a-gay-bar-heres-why-i-did\" target=\"_blank\">The Jewish Chronicle Online<\/a>. <\/em>&ldquo;Even though the holiday is a happy time, I cried as I recited our prayers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Herzfeld leads Ohev Sholom, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. After the shooting, he says about a dozen or so members of the&nbsp;congregation approached him and said they wanted to show solidarity with the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/some-jews-are-really-upset-obama-now-hates-the-defense-of-marriage-act-others-jews-not-so-much-20110225\" target=\"_blank\">Some Jews Are Really Upset Obama Now Hates The Defense Of Marriage Act. Other Jews, Not So Much<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So they did something that, for them, was pretty crazy. They planned&nbsp;a&nbsp;visit the Fireplace,&nbsp;a popular <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>&nbsp;bar near Dupont Circle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We did not go to recruit members that night or to express any new theological ideas,&rdquo; Herzfeld writes. &ldquo;Our goal was simply to try to connect, build bridges, heal a little and be with a community in pain.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had not been to a bar in more than 20 years,&rdquo; he continues. &ldquo;And I had never been to a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> bar.&nbsp;But we all realized that we had to act. Our country was in tremendous pain&ndash;is still in tremendous pain. We wanted to try to connect and offer support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Herzfeld says he&nbsp;understands that&nbsp;&ldquo;the intersection between the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community and Orthodox Judaism is obviously a work in progress&rdquo; and that there&rsquo;s still a lot of gray area between the two, but&nbsp;if ever there was an opportunity to find common ground, this was it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/what-will-it-take-to-get-orthodox-jews-to-embrace-their-gays-20100520\" target=\"_blank\">What Will It Take to Get Orthodox Jews to Embrace Their Gays?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experience proved&nbsp;more eye-opening than he even anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We walked inside and just by standing there with our kippot I felt that we were embracing a community that was looking for an embrace,&rdquo; he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That night I felt both the pain and the reassurance in the room,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;I felt pain when I stood in that bar&ndash;pain that I wouldn&rsquo;t have been able to comprehend without being there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So what&rsquo;s the takeaway from all this?<\/p>\n<p>In a word: Empathy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As an Orthodox community, we need to communicate a message of unconditional love and unconditional safety and protection to all of our children from as young an age as possible,&rdquo;&nbsp;Herzfeld writes. &ldquo;We need to communicate a message that actively challenges homophobia and transphobia&ndash;and to actively assert that such harmful messages will not be tolerated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For some children,&rdquo; he concludes, &ldquo;this can be a matter of life and death.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/are-orthodox-jews-coming-around-on-homosexuality-20100810\" target=\"_blank\">Are Orthodox Jews Coming Around On Homosexuality?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=q_TaDKpR0Ik:lU_yUrxOrxg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=q_TaDKpR0Ik:lU_yUrxOrxg:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/q_TaDKpR0Ik\/orthodox-rabbi-walked-gay-bar-happened-next-may-surprise-20160623\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/q_TaDKpR0Ik\/orthodox-rabbi-walked-gay-bar-happened-next-may-surprise-20160623<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Orthodox Rabbi Walked Into A Gay Bar\u2026 What Happened Next May Surprise You &ldquo;I heard about the horrific shooting at a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> nightclub in Orlando, Florida, while our synagogue in Washington was celebrating Shavuot,&rdquo;&nbsp;Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes in a new think piece&nbsp;published by&nbsp;The Jewish Chronicle Online. &ldquo;Even though the holiday is a happy time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/an-orthodox-rabbi-walked-into-a-gay-bar-what-happened-next-may-surprise-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Orthodox Rabbi Walked Into A Gay Bar\u2026 What Happened Next May Surprise You<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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