David Benkof

**David Benkof** (Ibraniyawa: דוד בנקוף; an haife shi **David Ari Bianco** a ranar 9 ga Oktoba, 1970) ɗan siyasan siyasa ne na Amurka wanda ke zaune a Urushalima . Ya girma a St. Louis, Missouri sannan ya tafi kwaleji a Jami'ar Stanford, inda ya fito a matsayin ɗan luwaɗi a shekarunsa na farko. A shekara ta 1989 ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kasa da kasa na United Synagogue Youth . 

## Ayyuka
A cikin 1995, Benkof ya kafa Q Syndicate, sabis na haɗin gwiwar gay-press wanda ke ba da ginshiƙai, zane-zane, ƙididdigar ƙididdiga da horoscopes ga kusan jaridu 100 na gay da lesbian. A cikin 1999 ya kafa Press Pass Q, wata wasika ta imel ta kowane wata ga masu sana'a na 'yan jarida da' yan mata. A shekara ta 2001, ya sayar da mafi rinjaye a Q Syndicate ga Rivendell Marketing, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa na tsawon shekaru biyu kafin ya sayar da sauran kamfanin. A cikin 1997 Benkof ya rubuta Tarihin Yahudawa na zamani don Kowa kuma a cikin 1999 Gay Essentials: Facts for Your Queer Brain . A cikin 2002 da 2003 ya rubuta shafi "Over the Rainbow" don Q Syndicate .  Ya kuma ba da gudummawa ga *Jaridar Yahudawa* ta Los Angeles . 

## Ra'ayoyi, tasiri da kamfen ɗin haƙƙin ɗan adam
A shekara ta 2003, Benkof ya ba da sanarwar cewa saboda dalilai na addini ya daina yin jima'i da maza.  Ya kasance Bayahude mai ibada, kuma ya ce daya daga cikin dalilan da ya canza shi ne saboda "Jima'i na gay ba daidai ba ne da rayuwar addini ta gargajiya. " Don nuna canjinsa a cikin jima'i, da kuma girmama kakansa marigayi, Julius Benkof, ya canza sunansa zuwa David Benkof.  Har yanzu ya bayyana shi a matsayin ɗan luwaɗi, ya soki ƙungiyar Ex-gay,  kuma ya bayyana ra'ayinsa cewa "maganiyar gyarawa ba ta aiki". 

A wannan lokacin Benkof ya kasance mai tsananin adawa da auren jinsi guda. Da yake mayar da martani ga muhawara game da auren gay, ya rubuta "Wannan tunanin ba kawai ba shi da kuskure, yana zagin miliyoyin Amurkawa waɗanda addininsu na gargajiya ke kira gare mu kare aure a matsayin cibiyar tsakiya a cikin al'umma da aka bayyana a matsayin haɗin kai tsakanin namiji da mace. "  Ya bayyana a fili cewa ƙin yarda da dangantakar jima'i ya dogara ne a wani bangare na addininsa, yana mai cewa, "Na yi imani da Allah ya kasance a fili ga mutanen Yahudawa cewa ya kamata mu bi dangantakar jimaʼi, kuma musamman ba tare da jima'i tsakanin maza biyu ba". 

Watanni biyu a shekara ta 2008 Benkof ya shiga cikin kamfen ɗin California Proposition 8 (2008), kuma don tallafawa wannan kamfen ɗin ya fara shafin yanar gizon da ake kira Gays Defend Marriage . Koyaya, a watan Yulin 2008, ya rabu da kamfen ɗin kuma ya rufe shafin yanar gizon, yana rubuta cewa yayin da yake ci gaba da adawa da auren jinsi ɗaya ya rasa girmamawa ga masu shirya shi,  kuma yana zargin su da jurewa da adawa le Yahudawa da homophobia. 

A cikin shekara ta 2014, Benkof ya rubuta wani labari a cikin Times Of Israel da ake kira "Orthodox, celibate, gay and that's OK" inda ya watsar da muhawara don sake fassara haramcin Littafi Mai-Tsarki game da luwadi. Ya bayyana "saƙonsa ga 'yan luwadi na Orthodox": "Ga maza kamar mu, bin dokar Yahudawa game da jima'i babban gwagwarmaya ne wanda sau da yawa yakan faru ba tare da tausayi ko goyon baya ba. Allah yana son mu ko da lokacin da ba za mu iya fahimtar dalilin da ya sa zai iyakance zaɓin jima'i ba. Da kyau, ba za mu taɓa samun wani irin wannan kusanci da zai yiwu ba, tare da ƙananan halachic yadda zai yiwu ba.

A cikin 2016 Benkof ya rubuta a Facebook cewa yayin da ya ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin majami'ar Orthodox ba ya yarda da tauhidin Orthodox kuma ba ya son a bayyana shi a matsayin mai zaman kansa, "ko wani matsayi na ɗaki". A cikin 2021, ya rubuta "Ni ɗan luwaɗi ne a bayyane, ina yin soyayya da maza, kuma ba ni da matsala da auren ɗan luwaɗi - kuma hakan gaskiya ne shekaru da yawa".

## Ilimi
Benkof ya shafe shekara ta 2004-2005 a Darche Noam / Shapell's, wani yeshiva na Orthodox a Urushalima. Daga nan ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Ibrananci da ke Urushalima a lokacin shekara ta 2005-2006.  Daga 2006 zuwa 2008, ya bi aikin digiri na biyu a tarihin Yahudawa na Amurka a Jami'ar New York . A cikin 2008 da 2009 ya rubuta wani shafi na mako-mako, Fabulously Observant, don The Jerusalem Post da sauran jaridu na Yahudawa da yawa, yana tattauna "rayuwa daga hangen nesa na Orthodox, mai ra'ayin mazan jiya, Bayahude na Amurka a bayyane a cikin aiwatar da Aliyah". Ya koma Darche Noam / Shapel daga 2011 zuwa 2014 a matsayin malamin ilimin Ibrananci.

## Duba kuma

* Jima'i da addinin Yahudanci

## Manazarta

## Haɗin waje

* Tashar Youtube ta Benkof
* Q Ƙungiyar
* ''Maza suna kare aure''
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