Trembling Before G d

Trembling Before Gd is an 2001 American documentary film about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith. It was directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski, an American who wanted to compare Orthodox Jewish attitudes to homosexuality with his own upbringing as a gay Conservative Jew.

While a variety of views regarding homosexuality exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally prohibits homosexual conduct. While there is disagreement about which acts come under core prohibitions, all of Orthodox Judaism puts certain core homosexual acts, including malemale anal sex, in the category of yehareg veal yaavor, die rather than transgress the small category of Biblically prohibited acts including apostasy, murder, idolatry, adultery, and incest which an Orthodox Jew is obligated under Jewish laws on selfsacrifice to die rather than commit.Familiarity with sociological and biological studies, as well as personal contact with Jewish homosexuals, has brought some Orthodox leaders to a more sympathetic viewpoint, which views homosexuals as mentally ill rather than rebellious and advocates treatment rather than ostracism or jail. In the 1974 yearbook of the Encyclopedia Judaica, Rabbi Norman Lamm, a leader in Modern Orthodox Judaism, urged sympathy and treatment Judaism allows for no compromise in its abhorrence of sodomy, but encourages both compassion and efforts at rehabilitation. Lamm compared homosexuals to those who attempt suicide also a sin in Jewish law, arguing that in both cases it would be irresponsible to shun or jail the sinner, but equally wrong for society to give open or even tacit approval. ........

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