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Rabbi Eric Solomon (he/him)
Rabbi
Conservative
Beth Meyer Synagogue
Raleigh, North Carolina
United States

About

Rabbi Eric Solomon is a community leader, teacher, and interfaith advocate who serves as clergy of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Rabbi Dr. Jennifer Solomon. In his work, he brings ancient wisdom into conversation with our contemporary moral challenges, with a focus on hope, human dignity, and the responsibility we share for one another. He has volunteered on the City of Raleigh’s Human Relations Commission and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of North Carolina Humanities. Through his civic engagement and study, Rabbi Eric explores how the Torah’s teachings deepen conscience, compassion, and moral responsibility.

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Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Experience officiating conversions for transgender and nonbinary individuals with a sensitivity to the wide range of relationships to gender and embodiment that transgender and nonbinary individuals may have
  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • Approaches the presence of LGBTQ+ people as the norm rather than an exception in Jewish communal life
  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
  • Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
  • Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

Clergy answered "No" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years