Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality

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Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) was a Jersey City- based Jewish association with the aim of "preventing, intervening and curing the circumstances underlying homosexual attractiveness".

The organization used the techniques of " reparative therapy ", which is rejected by all leading international psychiatric and psychological specialist societies, as they contradict the notions of homosexuality established today in psychiatry and psychology and can have harmful effects on the therapist. In 2015, JONAH was dissolved by order of the court and the organization's "therapists" were prohibited from further promoting and practicing such practices.

history

The organization was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Jersey City , New Jersey . Co-founder and co-director was Arthur A. Goldberg , a doctor of law, managing director of NARTH , president of PATH and member of the advisory board of DIJG . It was the only Jewish organization that represented reparative therapy. It was an international association with most of its members from the United States of America, Israel, Canada and Europe. Your web presence was in English, Hebrew and Spanish. In July 2003 they joined with ten other organizations that claim to serve people who suffer from ego-dystonic sexuality to form the group Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality ("Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality"). JONAH long promoted the untruthful claim that the Rabbinical Council of America supported his work, even after this influential rabbis association had explicitly stated that this was by no means the case.

The organization opposed homosexual behavior and same-sex relationships, aspects that the organization seeks to separate from the individual person. Rabbi Samuel Rosenberg, the JONAH group leader, said: “We must keep reminding ourselves that the Torah detests the action, not the person. Furthermore, after the (homosexual) act, we have the obligation to lead to Teschuva (Hebrew: "conversion", "repentance") instead of being reprimanded by family, leaders and congregation. "

Since 2012 there have been several lawsuits against the organization and Arthur A. Goldberg from former participants who are suing the organization and Goldberg for damages and compensation for pain and suffering.

In 2015, JONAH was convicted of fraudulent and immoral business practices to pay high damages to the victims of the “therapies” and was disbanded by order of the court; The New Jersey court forbade the involved "therapists" from any further application or practice of "reparative therapies".

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  1. ↑ JONAH'S Mission Statement ( Memento of August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): “Prevention, intervention, and healing of the underlying issues causing same-sex attractions”, accessed April 6, 2007.
  2. ↑ Statement ( memento of the original from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology , accessed on March 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgppn.de
  3. ^ Statement of the professional association of German specialists for psychiatry and psychotherapy on the public discussion about "conversion therapies" or "reparative therapies" for homosexuality. 2009.
  4. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the German Medical Association: World Medical Association: Homosexuality is not a disease. Resolutions of the 64th General Assembly of the World Medical Association. Retrieved March 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesaerztekammer.de
  5. ↑ Royal College of Psychiatrists: Submission to the Church of England's Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality (PDF; 43 kB), point 5 (p. 3): Psychotherapy and reparative therapy for LGB people. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
  6. ↑ Just the Facts Coalition, American Psychological Association et al .: Just the facts about sexual orientation and youth: A primer for principals, educators, and school personnel.
  7. ^ Douglas C. Haldeman: Therapeutic Antidotes: Helping Gay and Bisexual Men Recover from Conversion Therapies. In: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. 5, 2002, p. 117, doi : 10.1300 / J236v05n03_08 .
  8. ↑ A. Lee Beckstead, Susan L. Morrow: Mormon clients' Experiences of Conversion Therapy ( English ) In: vol. 32, no.5 . The Counseling Psychologist. August 2004. Archived from the original on June 29, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tcp.sagepub.com
  9. ^ Judgment ( Civil Action ) of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson County, Law Division, (Docket No. L-5734-12 , effective December 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ DIJG: Bulletin 1/2008 p. 32.
  11. ^ A b JONAH: Help for Jewish Homosexuals Consistent with Torah Principles Rosenbluth, Susan. Jewish Voice & Opinion. December 8, 1999.
  12. ↑ News from JONAH
  13. ↑ PATH web site ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Viewed April 4, 2006. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pathinfo.org
  14. ↑ Diverse Coalition Forms to Support People Seeking 'Non-Gay' Alternatives to Unwanted Homosexuality JERSEY City, New Jersey - (MARKET WIRE) - July 9, 2003.
  15. ^ Rabbinical Council of America's Statement Regarding JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) , November 29, 2012
  16. ^ New York Times: Gay 'Conversion Therapy' Faces Test in Courts
  17. ↑ Mark Joseph Stern: Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Forces Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy Group to Pay Victims and Disband . In: slate , December 21, 2015.