A year ago: Santiago de Compostela and End Stage Christianity (the holiest city in Europe covered in the sacred Rainbow Flag).
Tonight, an event to which I was invited by email:
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County warmly invites you to the Inaugural Community-Wide Pride Shabbat, a joyous celebration of Jewish values.
Here’s the page header:
In order to dispel any rumors that children are the targets of Pride events, kids 10 and younger are encouraged to attend via a fee waiver.
Let’s circle back to “a joyous celebration of Jewish values”. Unless End-stage American Judaism is Rainbow Flagism, what is the “Jewish value” within the World of Pride?
See also “The Bible on Homosexual Behavior”, 2015, by a Catholic scholar, on Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. And here’s Google AI on the intersection between Jewcraft and transgenderism:
In Orthodox Judaism, gender reassignment surgery is generally not permitted, as it is interpreted to be a violation of the laws against castration and alteration of the body. Leviticus 22:24, which prohibits offering sacrifices with “anything which is mauled, crushed, torn or cut,” is extended to cover human castration. Additionally, Leviticus 19:28 prohibits making “gashes in your flesh for the dead or incise any marks on yourselves,” which is interpreted as a prohibition against altering the body.
(Leviticus is generally understood by Jews to forbid tattoos, e.g., the noble Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s full set of not-in-any-way-linked-to-MS-13 hand and arm tattoos.)
Judaism forbids tattoos to Jews, not gentiles!
Does Jewish synagogues officially recognize or display the Rainbow flag, or is this more a matter of individual Jewish communities choosing to promote the Rainbow?
At my community and church, which is Syriac Orthodox, the Rainbow flag is not tolerated.
Guess I am not passing any Syriac Orthodox churches when I commute. Churches I pass in affluent areas on North East usually display rainbow flags. Never have seen a car parked near them though. Original post mentions no synagogues.
Pride is a sin
Not Jewish sin. Posting on Sabbath is often interpreted as a sin, breaking rule originating in commandment not to light fires on Sabbath (except in the Jewish Temple which is currently not extant). Which of 613 commandments is mentioning pride? Lying on business (and by derivation to make a point) is a sin.