Our Mission
Jewish Family Forever Works to avail communities and individuals of accurate scientific and Torah information on the topics of attraction, desire and relationships, with the ultimate aim of helping each individual realize their full potential as Jewish husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, males and females the way the torah clearly prescribes.
With the help of its rabbinical and scientific team, Jewish family forever works to clearly identify and challenge unscientific and non-Torah based values and beliefs, which are widely assumed to be true.
The Leadership of Jewish Family Forever sees the widespread community confusion and division as a call to action to better identify, understand and communicate timeless Torah and human-nature truths, and to make these as relevant, meaningful and inclusive to current generations of traditional Jews.
Jewish family forever works to prevent and undo the unnecessary emotional, spiritual and communal pain caused by The blind acceptance of these inaccurate beliefs and values.
The 5 core principles
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Everyone has the potential for satisfying heterosexual marriage, even if they have other sexual inclinations or experiences. People who choose to manage their feeling can do so with great success.
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The gay movement is leading people to mislabel both normal and dysfunctional patterns in very inaccurate, harmful and disempowering ways, causing them to miss out on core areas of growth and causing them to miss out on achieving their true relationship and spiritual potential.
2
Same sex attraction and experience is not that unusual, nor is it a sign of being “inherently different”; lack of opposite sex desire for strangers is also not that unusual nor is it a sign of “being inherently different”.
5
Our identity is NOT our feelings. But if we blindly accept this premise in regards to sexual feelings/identity, we give license for many people to make up their core identity based on other feelings and preferences. We then enable people to expect their family and community to affirm and celebrate these identities, even if their specific behaviors defy timeless religious beliefs and social norms.
3
The popularity of “inherently, gay, and straight” or of “being constitutionally unfit for heterosexual relationships” (Essentialism) is an ideological based cultural narrative, not a scientific one which is significantly impacting current society.
Who We Are?
Rabbinic Advisor
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz is a senior lecturer at Yeshivas Ohr Somayach and Rav of Kehillas Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem. Until his family’s aliyah in April 2010, he was the Rabbi of the Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Law School. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Ner Israel Rabbinical College; his BA from the Johns Hopkins University: and a JD from Harvard Law School(magna cum laude). He has written and lectured extensively in the US and Israel on the interface of halacha and contemporary society with a special interest and expertise in medical, family, business, and legal ethics. Many of his classes can be found on YouTube, Torah Anytime, Yiboneh, OU, and Ohr Somayach.
President, Jewish Family Forever
Gary (Yehezkel) Schiff
Yehezkel (Gary Schiff) has been involved in protecting the traditional Jewish family for over 20 years. He became involved as a synagogue president when the umbrella organization decided to ordain clergy who were openly leading a gay lifestyle. His tag line was, “If the Torah is wrong about this and that what else is it wrong about?” He has written about the issue in JNS, Times of Israel and the American Thinker. He has developed videos with Rabbi Breitowitz with the goal of strengthening the traditional family. He has been an active supporter of the traditional family in both the US and Israel’s legislatures. He heads Jewish Family Forever, an organization dedicated to protecting the traditional Jewish Family.
