Revolutionary course seeks to train matchmakers to proud community members • Contrary to past - this is a match of same-sex couples • Among lecturers - Haredi matchmaker

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Despite the existence of various religious dating sites and love-click apps, the matchmaking institution is still one of the key ways in which the religious sector finds their spouses. The matchmaker or matchmaker, who knows both spouses, manages to find launch points that no computerized algorithm succeeds in, and the results see the high marriage rate provided by the traditional method. Religious LGBT organizations are now entering this field of traditional matchmaking with a new idea: a LGBT matchmaking course, because why should only the Straits benefit? In contrast to the past, this is not a gay-lesbian match, by default, but a match of two gay men who will have sex.

"I have noticed that in the national religious community, matchmaking is really a sport," Nadav Schwartz, a religious homosexual and founder of the first LGBT matchmaker course, "I accept right and left. Talk to me for two minutes in the synagogue and honestly offer me someone, even without really knowing me. In the LGBT public, on the other hand, it is really missing. Someone may know a guy from Haifa and I even live in Jerusalem, but no one does the match. On the other hand, I myself do events for men who are attracted to men, and have gone out quite a few couples And just this week, a couple I knew got engaged, and I felt that there were some pointy successes that needed to become something much bigger. After thinking, I came to the conclusion that what's stopping us is that we're not talking about enough matchmaking and that people who want a match feel they can't do it because they don't have the tools. "

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Religious LGBTs do not have to be part of a course designed to raise awareness of religious LGBT needs and improve the ability of amateur matchmakers to match spouses of all genders. During the course, which will be held in Jerusalem and will last over 6 weekly meetings, participants will uncover the special difficulties and challenges facing LGBT community members, including questions about how and when to talk about personal issues for their match, what transgender couples need, how to build a home. "Religious in me and more.

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Another difficulty faced by LGBT people entering the matchmaking market is related to the meager supply of potential spouses, as Schwartz says: "When I went out with girls I could be picky: If she likes Rabbi Kook's books but not the Maharal - you can always look for another girl, But LGBT supply is much lower because LGBT is a minority, so if I'm looking for a religious person who speaks my language and has common interests, it greatly reduces my chances of finding a relationship, and the question that comes up is what I'm willing to give up and where I am This is even more complicated in men, because of the issue of a male cohort that adds complexity to finding the partner; Touching the dating period relevant straights and then solved. Here it is a question relevant to all the couples. "

The Cross will include meetings with matchmakers from various sectors, as well as with a haredi matchmaker who will tell attendees about the tricks that differentiate between a fur match and a successful match.

Does she know why she came in?

"Totally. No lecturer will come into the room without knowing why he came in. We are aware that there are those who would be uncomfortable, but when Gd said 'it is not good to be human alone' he talked about all human beings, not just straight people."

And the LGBT relationship, Halacha?

"There are quite a few rabbis today who talk about LGBT parity in the first place, and there are legitimate Halachic questions about what they do in this relationship and everyone will have to ask their gentlemen what he or she is allowed in the context."