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Rabbi Jeremy Kridel
Secular/Secular Humanist
3017089675
Machar - The Secular Humanistic Jewish Congregation of Greater Washington
Washington, District of Columbia

About

I’m the rabbi of a small Humanistic Jewish congregation in the DC area that has a history of both queer members and queer clergy. I’m queer and genderqueer, and am working to ensure inclusion both within the congregation and in my rabbinate more broadly. This included coming out to my congregation during the High Holidays in order to make sure our queer members would know that they will always have my support.

I love helping queer families of all types connect with Jewish culture and practice, and happily include polycules and other nontraditional family structures within my work.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • 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 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

  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals