Pre-modern rabbis often treated same-sex relations among Jews as minor.

Evidence

As Yaron Ben-Naeh has recently argued, “same-sex sexual relations” between Jews were not consistently assailed by the rabbis, who often considered it a minor transgression. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 444

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