The storm over Rabbi Kostiner's remarks continues:
After the head of the Mitzpe Ramon Yeshiva, Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, spoke in a protest tent in front of Nir Orbach's home in Petah Tikva on Saturday night, chanting insults against the LGBT community, including "Homosexuals Home" and "Evil Evil Evil, "religious gays demand to oust him from the IDF, where he teaches classes.
"Do not be ashamed, say - gays home!": The blatant attack of Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, Rosh Yeshivat Mitzpe Ramon and rabbis of the Noam party, against the LGBT community @ YairEttinger pic.twitter.com/siqynKSv0k
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Last Tuesday, the day Rabbi Kostiner's remarks were published, he participated as a speaker at a yeshiva day in Kiryat HaHadracha (City of the Baha'is). The Baha'is also taught classes by Rabbi Amitai Tobol, the chairman of the land arm, Rabbi Peretz Einhorn, Rabbi Arik Malkieli, and Rabbi Yaakov Dadon.
The first to give the lessons was Rabbi Kostiner, who gave a lecture to several dozen soldiers.
Regular and reservist religious soldiers belonging to the LGBT community expressed displeasure at the fact that Rabbi Kostiner carried the remarks, even though it was probably before the video was posted in the protest encampment, saying he should not continue lecturing to soldiers because of his positions.
"These are harsh statements that could even lead to LGBT people belonging to the religious and ultra-Orthodox sector reaching out," Nathaniel Scheller, director of the Chevruta organization, one of the three organizations of the religious LGBT community, told Israel Today. His to the training camp.
How else is he lecturing in the IDF? We demand that the army condemn this and remove him from reserve service or as an IDF employee.
He should not carry things in the army. "
In WhatsApp groups where young members of the military age expressed heavy fear of the consequences of what Rabbi Kostiner said.
"We hear statements of fear," Scheller says.
This is not the last time that Rabbi Kostiner's stay in the IDF is being tested. Following the publication, dozens of rabbis issued a letter against the IDF's decision, following which it was decided that he would continue to serve in the reserve but would not serve as the course rabbi.
"We demand from Rabbi Costiner to apologize, he has hurt a lot of people. For us we are going to march in the thousands with domes on our heads in the Pride Parade," Scheller said.
"We are proud of the dome on our heads, our sexual orientation and our gender identity."
No response was received from the IDF, and it will be published when it is received
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