Shoval - All is created for your glory (
Hebrew
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: שׁב"ל - שהכל ברא לכבודו) is an initiative of
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
orthodox
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to:
Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...
,
gay,
bisexual
Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...
and
transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...
people in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
that actively promotes tolerance and understanding of
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term is a ...
people within religious communities in Israel through meeting with educators.
[Harris, Ben]
"For religious gays in Israel, new initiatives are providing hope"
'' JTA'', 24 January 2010.
It is a cooperation of gay men from
Havruta, and lesbian women from
Bat Kol
In the Abrahamic religions, the voice of God is a communication from God to human beings, heard by humans as a sound with no apparent physical source.
In rabbinic Judaism, such a voice was known as a ''bat kol'' ( he, בַּת קוֹל ''ba ...
, and is supported and promoted by these organizations. The organisation's name derives from the second of the
Sheva Brachot.
Mission statement
Shoval promotes tolerance and understanding of
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term is a ...
people within the religious communities in Israel. Shoval's main focus is to create a safe place within the religious communities in Israel for LGBT adolescents. It provides educational programs that are directed at educators, social workers, and people that affect LGBT adolescents directly, in order to raise awareness about LGBT issues.
Core values
Shoval members hold to the following core values:
*
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generall ...
and
gender identity
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the i ...
are significant and central parts of a person’s life.
*Acceptance and being at peace with one’s sexual orientation is the way to an ethical life of health and fulfillment.
*There should be a place within religious society for LGBT people, without contradiction or denial.
*The religious society has a responsibility for the physical and mental well being for all youth with alternative sexual orientation and alternative gender identities.
See also
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Lesbian and gay topics and Judaism
The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra ( Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse between males as a '' to'eivah'' (something abhorred or detested) that can be subject t ...
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Havruta Religious gay community in Israel
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Bat Kol religious lesbian community in Israel
References
External links
Shoval - All is created for your glory(official site) (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
)
Shoval on Havruta web site - A call for religious educators (
Hebrew
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LGBT organizations in Israel
Jewish organizations based in Israel
Religious organizations based in Israel
Non-profit organizations based in Israel
LGBT Orthodox Jewish organizations