Orthodox Jewish lesbians are situated on the margins of both their “natural” communities: the religious one and the homosexual one. As a result, they feel rejected, isolated and even punished by society. Most of the existing literature on Orthodox lesbians focuses on sociological aspects, mainly the negative attitudes held by religious communities towards their sexual identity and the various problems that arise from these. Less attention has been paid to lesbians’ psychological coping with the tensions between their two central identities: the religious and the sexual. This study contributes to fill this lacuna, by examining Orthodox Jewish lesbians’ conception of God and its relation to how they manage the tensions between their contradictory identities. Content analysis of narratives of Orthodox Jewish lesbians published in the media, Internet forums, Koren’s book Altering the closet: Stories of Religious Homosexuals and Lesbians (2003), as well as narratives of my therapy clients, revealed that lesbians turn to God as their ultimate refuge, but there are different conceptions of God, ranging from benevolent to persecutory, accepting or highly judgmental and punishing. The different portrayals of God were closely related to different coping strategies with the conflicts that underly their identities and with the degree of self acceptance as lesbians.