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  • 'Gay Rabbi' arrested (Ron Yosef; Israel)

    02/22/2016 8:18:17 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 25 replies
    INN ^ | 2/22/2016, 6:56 PM | David Rosenberg
    Ron Yosef, an openly gay Orthodox rabbi and leader of the HOD organization seeking to provide a framework for homosexual religious Jews to stay within Judaism, was arrested on Sunday over suspicions of fraud and theft, NRG reported. According to police reports, Yosef in the past allegedly stole 300,000 shekels from a building firm he was then working for, using fraudulent credit cards taken out in the company's name. [...] Despite his orientation and Judaism's explicit forbidding of homosexuality in the Torah, Yosef continues to identify as an Orthodox Jew. ...