Homophobic rabbi speaks out against female soldiers, gay men

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, who runs a pre-army religious academy, tells new recruits that military service drives female soldiers “crazy” and makes them “no longer Jews,” according to footage broadcast by Channel 2 news.

“They’ve driven our girls crazy,” he says. “They go [into the army] Jews, but they aren’t Jews on the way out.”

Levinstein drew censure this summer after a speech he gave calling homosexuals “deviants.” He wrote a letter to the Defense Ministry, explaining his comments, but has had many of his activities with the military cut short in light of his controversial remarks.

In his speech to recruits, Levinstein references this, saying he met recently with an IDF general to smooth things over.

Levinstein also discusses gay men in his latest remarks.

“They call them ‘new families,’ with two dads. It’s an insane asylum, simply an insane asylum,” he says, shaking his head.